An inlet of the Bosphorus dividing the city of Istanbul and forming the natural harbor that has sheltered Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and other ships for thousands of years.

A hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds.

The official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation.

The hand-hole, or manhole, in a steam boiler, by means of which sediment can be removed.

(historical fashion) A hood intended for use by women while horseriding. / (fashion) A kind of hooded cloak.

(archaic) brothel

An iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails.

(medicine) A liver that is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails, resulting from cirrhosis.

plural of hobnail liver

(Christianity) One of the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, nones, and usually compline, the services of which are shorter and considered less important than the three major hours of matins, lauds, and vespers.