Word Meanings - HAMMERCLOTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cloth which covers a coach box. (more info) + E. cloth; or perh.

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• COACH
  1. To convey in a coach. Pope. 2. To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. I coached him before he got his scholarship. G. Eliot.
• COACHMAN
  A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ; -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. (more info) 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• 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.
• COACHMANSHIP
  Skill in driving a coach.
• COACHFELLOW
  One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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.
• COACHDOG
  One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.
• 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
• COACHEE
  A coachman
• COVERSED SINE
  The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
• CLOTHESPIN
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• COACHWHIP SNAKE
  A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States Note: Its long and tapering tail has the scales so arranged and colored as to give it a braided appearance, whence the name.
• 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,
• COVERSIDE
  A region of country having covers; a hunting country.
• CLOTHRED
  Clottered. Chaucer.
• COACHBOX
  The seat of a coachman.
• COACHER
  one of the side at the bat posted near first or third base to direct a base runner. (more info) 1. A coachman. 2. A coach horse. 3. One who coaches; specif. ,
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• 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.
• 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
• HAIRCLOTH
  Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.
• CHEESE CLOTH
  A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• UNCLOTHE
  To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked. I. Watts. do groan being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon. 2 Cor. v. 4.