A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

Material used for cloth selvage.

A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.

(in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.

(in the plural, military, historical) The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.

(computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.

(architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

(carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.

(ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.

(tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

(architecture) A tilt to a building.

(transitive) To create or recite a list.

(transitive) To place in listings.

(transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.

(transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.

(transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.

(transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.

(transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.

(transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.

To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.

(intransitive, poetic) To listen.

(transitive, poetic) To listen to.