Word Meanings - FORESTALLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. Locke.

Related words: (words related to FORESTALLER)

• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• LOCKER
  1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
• LOCKET
  1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
• LOCKEN
  of Lock. Chaucer.
• MARKETABLE
  1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
• MARKET
  The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market
• MARKETING
  1. The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market. 2. Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.
• LOCKED-JAW
  See LOCKJAW
• NEWMARKET
  A long, closely fitting cloak.
• GLOCKENSPIEL
  An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
• UNDERLOCKER
  A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.
• SLOCK; SLOCKEN
  To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
• LANDLOCKED
  Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon. (more info) 1. Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land.