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The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.

Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.] Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] -- Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] -- Lumber wa…

An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules. [S. America]

To change the positions of, as of troops of ships.

steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force. March them again in fair array. Prior.

A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.

To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army. And marshaling the heroes of his name As, in their order, next to light they came. Dryden.

To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.

t, Before the mast. See under Afore, and Before. -- Mast coat. See under Coat. -- Mast hoop, one of a number of hoops attached to the fore edge of a boom sail, which slip on the mast as the sail is raised or lowered; also, one of the iron hoops used in making a made mast. See Made.

A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural. Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. Wordsworth.

e; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.

eback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses. "To mount the Trojan troop." Dryden.

An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service. The hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty. Hawthorne. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.

One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.

The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet. Knight.

o, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.

A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.

Extreme constipation. [Obs.] Hooper.

A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediæval fortifications.

ly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings. [U.S.] Cooper.