speight, choose one:

a) a long handled gaff used in sport fishing

b) German mythological bird resembling a yellow-bellied sapsucker

c) a channel sewn into a corset to hold a whalebone (baleen) stiffening strip

d) a bridge which requires payment of a toll at both ends

e) to make clear or clarify; elucidate

f) the green woodpecker (obs.)

g) foul-mouthed

h) prediction, prophecy; augury, omen (rare)

i) a drying rack for turves

j) a display window magic trick: An unhooked spigot is suspended from a height of about two feet by a single fishing line. Once turned on water rushes out from the spigot into a wash pan night and day for about a week.

k) hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

l) a collection, meeting, or assemblage, esp. one to elect a military officer from the ranks of enlisted men (archaic)

m) (Scot.) late; lateness

n) a small wooden sluice for draining water from an overflow tank

o) a slew; a myriad; a vast quantity