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Fleet :: Fleet (v. t.) To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.

Timepiece :: Timepiece (n.) A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer..

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person..

Floccillation :: Floccillation (n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases..

Tooth :: Tooth (v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4..

Uplock :: Uplock (v. t.) To lock up.

Pound :: Pound (n.) A level stretch in a canal between locks.

Furniture :: Furniture (v. t.) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings..

Revolver :: Revolver (n.) One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater..

Flight :: Flight (n.) A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows..

Lockage :: Lockage (n.) Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.

Count-wheel :: Count-wheel (n.) The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

Couple :: Couple (v.) To join in wedlock; to marry.

Leader :: Leader (n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

Herisson :: Herisson (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage..

Pick :: Pick (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock..

Bang :: Bang (v. t.) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair)..

Reserate :: Reserate (v. t.) To unlock; to open.

Tangle :: Tangle (n.) To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel..

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