Word Meanings - CHOKE-STRAP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

Related words: (words related to CHOKE-STRAP)

• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• COLLARED
  Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins. 3. Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t. (more
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• COLLARET; COLLARETTE
  A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• LEADED
  Separated by leads, as the lines of a page. (more info) 1. Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• BELLYBAND
  A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail. (more info) 1. A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth. 2. A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.
• LOWER
  Compar. of Low, a.
• STRAPPLE
  To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman.
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• LEADMAN
  One who leads a dance. B. Jonson.
• LEADSMAN
  The man who heaves the lead. Totten.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.