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Word Meanings - STRICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight.

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  • KNIGHTLESS
    Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
  • DRAWER
    An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
  • DRAWCANSIR
    A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
  • DRAW-CUT
    A single cut with a knife.
  • HACKLE
    1. A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel. 2. Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk. 3. One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence,
  • DRAWEE
    The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
  • DRAWROD
    A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
  • DRAWBAR
    An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end,
  • 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
  • DRAW
    draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. Drag, Dray a 1. To cause to move continuously by force
  • DRAWLINK
    See
  • PREPARATIVELY
    By way of preparation.
  • DRAWGLOVES
    An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
  • 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.
  • DRAWN
    See PATTERN
  • DRAWL
    To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
  • DRAWSHAVE
    See KNIFE
  • DRAWBORE
    A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale.
  • DRAWHEAD
    The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.
  • BUNCHY
    Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page. (more info) 1. Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer. 2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's
  • UNKNIGHT
    To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • UNDRAW
    To draw aside or open; to draw back. Angels undrew the curtain of the throne. Young.
  • FINEDRAW
    To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.
  • INDRAWN
    Drawn in.
  • WIREDRAW
    To pass, or to draw off, through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction. (more info) 1. To form into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel. 2. Hence, to draw by art or violence. My sense
  • WITHDRAWAL
    The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.

 

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