Word Meanings - GARMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.

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• GARMENT
  Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• ARTICLE
  One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A is called the indefinite article, the the definite article. (more info) 1. A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other
• GARMENTURE
  Clothing; dress.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• CLOTHIER
  1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• CLOTHING
  See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing
• ARTICLED
  Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk.
• CLOTHESPIN
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• CLOTHES
  1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes,
• CLOTHRED
  Clottered. Chaucer.
• GARMENTED
  Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.
• CLOTHESPRESS
  A receptacle for clothes.
• CLOTH
  cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. klæ'ebi, Dan. klæde, cloth, 1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments;
• PIECENER
  1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• SADDLECLOTH
  A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• GUNNY; GUNNY CLOTH
  A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.