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Word Meanings - CHITTERLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings. Gascoigne.

Related words: (words related to CHITTERLING)

  • SHIRT WAIST
    A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
  • IRONBARK TREE
    The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also ironwood.
  • IRONIC
    Ironical. Sir T. Herbert.
  • IRONIST
    One who uses irony.
  • IRONWOOD
    A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood. Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam are so called; also the Olneya Tesota, a small tree of Arizona; in the West Indies, the Erythroxylon areolatum, and several other unrelated
  • IRONWEED
    A tall weed with purplish flowers . The name is also applied to other plants of the same genus.
  • SHIRTING
    Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • IRONISH
    Resembling iron, as in taste. Wood.
  • BREASTWHEEL
    A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
  • BREASTWORK
    A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • IRON-SIDED
    Having iron sides, or very firm sides.
  • IRONMONGER
    A dealer in iron or hardware.
  • BREASTPLATE
    A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
  • IRON-CASED
    Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.
  • IRONWORT
    An herb of the Mint family , supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis.
  • IRONER
    One who, or that which, irons.
  • BREASTKNOT
    A pin worn of the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • BRAND IRON
    1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
  • CHICKEN-BREASTED
    Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
  • SINGLE-BREASTED
    Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
  • BROKEN BREAST
    Abscess of the mammary gland.
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • CAST-IRON
    Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • VELVETBREAST
    The goosander.
  • T IRON
    See T
  • LOFTING IRON
    See LOFTER
  • REDBREAST
    The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish. (more info) The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.

 

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