Object

• wax: Tie bladder or run sealing wax over the corks, and store in a dry, cool place.

• victory: O'Brien stroked in a break of 60 to pull a frame back, but Michie fired in 75 to seal victory.

Adjective modifier

• airtight: It is a thin inner liner of the tire that makes the airtight seal to the tire.

• watertight: Rubber rings are compressed between the fitting and the pipe in such a way as to produce a watertight seal.

• Antarctic: We will visit enormous penguin rookeries, land on beaches ruled by Antarctic fur seals and observe southern elephant seals wallowing in mud pools.

Modifies a noun

• pup: She told me of a seal pup that was on the beach at Hornsea.

• colony: Back on the bus we came back on the shore road and passed the seal colony and the loch.

• thong: Seal skin thong is tied around end of second cross piece from the front.

• cull: Mr Flett added that a seal cull would also damage tourism to the isles.

Noun used with modifier

• rubber: Especially if it has been on for some time and the cover is welded to the rubber seal.

• O-ring: Look for cracks in the pipe, or see if the o-ring seal is perished where the pipe bolts on to the pump.

• harp: The new authorization calls for the killing of 350,000 harp seals in two of the next three years, and 275,000 in the third.

Preposition: of

• approval: The Royal seal of approval Over the last 30 years, Peter has built up a strong team of instructors.