(US, slang) stuck; immobilized or unable to proceed

(nautical) All plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve.

(architecture) A form of late German Gothic tracery in which the moulded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the moulding is seen at the end of each similar stump.

Campaigning for public office; on the hustings.

Iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails; once used in making gun barrels.

(firearms) Material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined.

An old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off. / A short, thick nail.

The enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened.

A mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it is formed.

The tendency not to apply oneself fully to a task until the last possible moment before a deadline.