carline

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A woman, especially an old one.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Same as carlino
• noun See carlin.
• noun A Russian game of billiards which employs five balls, one of them blue and another black or yellow.
• noun A piece of timber in a ship, ranging fore and aft from one deck-beam to another, and forming with the beams a framing for the deck-planks to rest upon.
• noun A transverse iron or wooden bar placed across the top of a railroad-car from side to side to support the roof-boards. Sometimes called a rafter.
• Belonging to the genus Carlina: as, the carline thistle.
• noun A kind of thistle, Carlina vulgaris or C. acaulis. See Carlina.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents.
• noun (Naut.) A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Carline thistle.
• noun A woman; a hag or witch.
• noun nautical A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.
• noun A line of automobiles awaiting access to the same building or similar location.