Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Verb

1. (transitive, dialectal or archaic) To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
2. (rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
3. (Scotland, transitive) To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.
4. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.
5. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
6. (transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality; welcome.
7. (transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive.
8. (transitive, dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.

Substantiv

1. (Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
2. a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
3. (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom
4. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
5. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
6. (mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
7. (rare, in the plural) Cage-shuts.
8. (nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
9. (nautical) The valve of a pump box.