PITONS Antonyms

• a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving

• a central cohesive source of support and stability

• a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute

• fix firmly and stably

• secure a vessel with an anchor

• a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

• a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech

• the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key

• the act of moving with great haste

• a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length

• a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener

• a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)

• in a rigid manner

• directly

• move or jump suddenly

• secure or lock with a bolt

• swallow hastily

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• leave suddenly and as if in a hurry

• eat hastily without proper chewing

• make or roll into bolts

• a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion

• a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River

• an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes

• a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

• as completely as possible

• secure with chocks

• support on chocks

• a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

• a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

• an associate who provides cooperation or assistance

• a person with whom you are acquainted

• a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• a worker who hangs something

• anything from which something can be hung

• of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base

• an evil spell

• cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

• a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice

• a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones

• a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel

• a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released

• bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck

• hurl as if with a sling

• hang loosely or freely; let swing

• move with a sling

• hold or carry in a sling