(nautical) The action of deliberately flooding spaces on one side (of a ship, boat, or other vessel) in order to counterbalance flooding occurring on the opposite side and keep the vessel on an eve...

plural of taxi driver

Obsolete form of could.

Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops). / (figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.