HOMOGRAPHS V

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, like rock, are those 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. Flying mammal and to flutter
2. Narrow tube and cereal plant stalks
3. Baseball cap feature and statement of debt
4. To greet and frozen rain
5. Fast and a large group of cars, ships, or trucks
6. Brag and bird
7. Small outbuilding and to lose or cast off
8. Stake and mail
9. Gem and corrupt
10. Preference and a line diagonal to the grain of a fabric
11. Band and enclosure
12. Body part and supply with weapons
13. Hole and to set one person or issue against another
14. Body part that comes and goes and once around a track
15. Cut short and farmer's harvest
16. Choose and a digging tool
17. Color and a duck
18. Fasten securely and run away
19. Words and music and twenty
20. Don Giovanni and a gardening tool

 Answers:

1. Bat
2. Straw
3. Bill
4. Hail
5. Fleet
6. Crow
7. Shed
8. Post
9. Jade
10. Bias
11. Ring
12. Arm
13. Pit
14. Lap
15. Crop
16. Pick
17. Teal
18. Bolt
19. Score
20. Rake