Anagrams of: CCHLSTU

• the act of grasping

• a tense critical situation

• a number of birds hatched at the same time

• a collection of things or persons to be handled together

• a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand

• a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism

• a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism

• take hold of; grab

• hold firmly, usually with one's hands

• affect

• Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

• Young or seed oysters together with the shells and other objects to which they are usually attached.

• Rubbish; debris; refuse.

• An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them.

• The woody fibre of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.

• A tuft or clump of grass.

• To beat or whip; to drub.

• To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

• tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas

• The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves.

• To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments.

• To accumulate small household items of little value.

• to so extreme a degree

• of so extreme a degree or extent; demonstrative, other pronoun; demonstrative determiner, kind

• not open

• used especially of mouth or eyes

• move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut

• become closed

• prevent from entering; shut out