Meaning

• Noun

  1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
  2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
  3. The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
  4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
  5. A device to physically arrest motion.
  6. The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
  7. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
  8. A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse

• Verb