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A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

(material cloth) Material used for cloth selvage.

(register) A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.

(barrier)(historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.

(historical) The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.

(programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.

(architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

(carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.

(ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.

(tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

(obsolete) A stripe.

(obsolete) A boundary or limit; a border.

To create or recite a list.

To place in listings.

To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.

To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.

(agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.

(Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.

(carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.

(military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.

(obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.

(obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective (listed).

(business) To trade on a particular stock exchange.

(archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.

(poetic) To listen.

(poetic) To listen to.

(archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something).

(archaic) To be pleasing to.

(obsolete) Desire, inclination.

(architecture) A tilt to a building.

(nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.

(nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.

(nautical) To tilt to one side.