verb

• (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
• (intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another.
• (transitive) To take as husband or wife.
• (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
• (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
• (intransitive, figuratively, of inanimate or abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up.
• (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union.
• (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
• (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.