HOMOGRAPHS  I

Homographs are words that have two or more meanings. Rock is an example. A rock can be a stone, a type of music, or it can mean to move back and forth, as in rocking a baby. There are thousands of homographs in English. The most interesting ones are those, like rock, in which the two (or more) meanings are completely unrelated (or at least only distantly related).  In each clue below, both definitions can be satisfied by the same word. What is the word?

1. A season of the year and a metal coil
2. Skill and Biblical money
3. Tremble and a sack for arrows
4. Conceal oneself and animal skin
5. Student and eye part
6. Quick and go without food
7. Diversion, as Scrabble, and wild animals
8. Conceit and bathroom fixture
9. Side of a river and financial institution
10. Clean up and dress nicely and a kind of tree
11. Torso part and a piece of furniture
12. A journey and to stumble
13. To teach and wedding dress feature
14. Common fowl and to suddenly lower your head
15. Color and sad
16. Strict and the rear of a boat
17. Carry or endure and an animal
18. Musical notation and a group of twenty
19. Vegetable and to expand very quickly
20. Flower and stood up

Answers:

1. Spring
2. Talent
3. Quiver
4. Hide
5. Pupil
6. Fast
7. Game
8. Vanity
9. Bank
10. Spruce
11. Chest
12. Trip
13. Train
14. Duck
15. Blue
16. Stern
17. Bear
18. Score
19. Mushroom
20. Rose