HOMOGRAPHS  II

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. Employees and horizontal lines in music
2. Close tightly and a marine animal
3. Writing implement and an enclosure
4. Small arrow and move quickly
5. Unit of weight and an animal shelter
6. Necessity in many sports and a formal dance
7. Tied down and to leap
8. Wedding dress feature and rail transport
9. Book part and to summon
10. Shopping or to-do and lean to one side
11. Written record and a cut-down tree trunk
12. Actors in a play and a limb immobilizer
13. Hold, as a grudge and a shelter for ships
14. Deep affection and zero in tennis
15. Yard partition and to sell stolen property
16. What a dog and a tree have in common
17. Speak and South Dakota
18. Located and establish
19. Overeat and a deep canyon
20. Sports team supporter and a cooling device

Answers:

1. Staff
2. Seal
3. Pen
4. Dart
5. Pound
6. Ball
7. Bound
8. Train
9. Page
10. List
11. Log
12. Cast
13. Harbor
14. Love
15. Fence
16. Bark
17. State
18. Found
19. Gorge
20. Fan