(derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
(Can we clean up(+) this sense?) A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
“The day she came home to find that our dogling had gone to live permanently with the man who spaded up our back yard it seemed for a time that there was no balm in Gilead.”
“This kinde of dogge is called in like maner Canis Sarcinarius in Latine, and may aptly be englished a Tynckers Curre.”
“Cancer fluviatilis, River crabfish, The ashes of these fishes are of wonderfull vertue, by the propertie of their substance, against the biting of a mad dogge.”
