Meaning

• 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) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.

• 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.

• A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

• 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.

• A stripe.

• A boundary or limit; a border.

Meaning

• To create or recite a list.

• To place in listings.

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

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

  "to list a door"

• To plough and plant with a lister.

• To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.

• To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.

  "to list a board"

• To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.

• To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.

• To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.