(nautical) A strong bend knot commonly used to join two lines, ropes, and hawsers when required. A reliable safe knot if tied correctly, but unsafe if tied incorrectly, which is easily done. It is a basic knot which forms part of many other knots, hitches, bends, etc.

(US, sports) to remove the varsity players from a game and insert junior varsity players. Usually happens toward the end of a one-sided contest.

(idiomatic) Crazy, mad or insane. / (idiomatic) Close to or in close proximity to another location.

The extra benefit received from a unit increase in the consumption of a good or service. It is calculated as the increase in total benefit divided by the increase in consumption.

A peg placed in a hole in a workbench to clamp a workpiece in place

(soccer) substitutes' bench

A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict of Nursia.

Of or pertaining to St. Benedict of Nursia. / Of or pertaining to the Benedictine Order.

(music) Either of two canticles that begin with the Latin word benedictus. / (music) The music that accompanies these canticles.

Doubled version of the sheet bend; a strong knot used to tie two ropes of different diameters together.