In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.

(dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.

The worst part or end of a thing.

A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.

A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.

(used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.

To droop; to tire.

For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.

To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.

To work hard, especially on menial chores.

(usually offensive, sometimes affectionate) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one.

An annoying person.