Word Meanings - TATTERSALL'S - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races; hence, a large horse market elsewhere.

Related words: (words related to TATTERSALL\'S)

• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• CREDIT FONCIER
  A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• BETTONG
  A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.
• BETTY
  A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters. 3. A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called
• TATTERSALL'S
  A famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races; hence, a large horse market elsewhere.
• HORSE-JOCKEY
  1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
• FAMOUSNESS
  The state of being famous.
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• LONDONIZE
  To impart to a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
• BETTERMOST
  Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
• DISCREDITABLE
  Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• NEWMARKET
  A long, closely fitting cloak.
• SAWHORSE
  A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
• PREESTABLISH
  To establish beforehand.