A floating platform attached at one end to a wharf so as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.

Lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt.

Thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings for machine belts.

Split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc. / Alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts.

(historical) A lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; used especially in lighthouses.

Argand lamp

(UK, historical) A licence or permit given to a convict or prisoner to go out and work before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain conditions.

Lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from pillow lace.

A plain style of binding in smooth pale-brown calf leather, used for law books.

Saltuarius eximius, in the family Carphodactylidae, native to the Melville Range in Northeastern Australia.