Word Meanings - STEAMBOATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. Knight. (more info) 1. The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
Related words: (words related to STEAMBOATING)
- KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - BUSINESS
The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's - SHEAR
To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear - TRANSPORTING
That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble. - OCCUPATION
1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time - TRANSPORTAL
Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin. - TRANSPORTABILITY
The quality or state of being transportable. - SHEARS
The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. Rotary shears. See under Rotary. (more info) 1. A cutting instrument. Specifically: An instrument consisting - KNIGHT BANNERET
A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field - TRANSPORTED
Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n. - BOOKSELLING
The employment of selling books. - BOOKSTAND
1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference. - 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. - MERCHANDISER
A trader. Bunyan. - TRANSPORT
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as - SHEARBILL
The black skimmer. See Skimmer. - TRANSPORTABLE
1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense. - SHEARN
Dung; excrement. Holland. - BOOKSHOP
A bookseller's shop. - KNIGHT BACHELOR
A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4. - RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - MISTRANSPORT
To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall. - DISHEARTENMENT
Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits. - ALE-KNIGHT
A pot companion.