1. An appliance for mechanically gripping or releasing the rope in rope haulage.

2. An airway in an anthracite mine.

Any of several species of frugivorous and carnivorous primates which compose the families Cercopithecidae and Cebidae in the suborder Anthropoidea; the face is typically flattened and hairless, all species are pentadactyl, and the mammary glands are always in the pectoral region.