(fishing) An angler's snap-hook or spear-hook. / A latch or door-hook with a spring-catch for keeping it fast in the staple.

plural of spring of pork

(obsolete) The lower part of a forequarter of pork, which is divided from the neck, and has the leg and foot without the shoulder.

(nautical) To loosen the end of a plank in a ship's bottom.

(nautical) To ease the helm, and sail nearer to the wind than before; said of a vessel.

To begin to leak.

In locomotives, an iron rod fitted between the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate the pressure on the axles.

(nautical) A preventer stay, to assist the regular one; a smaller stay placed above the stays as a duplicate if needed.

A device for measuring weight or force by the elasticity of a spiral spring.

Geum vernum, native to much of temperate eastern North America.