Word Meanings - TEASELING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.

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• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• GATHER
  To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
• CUTTLE BONE
  The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
• CUTTINGLY
  In a cutting manner.
• CUTTLE
  A knife. Bale.
• CUTTOO PLATE
  A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
• CUTTER
  1. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments. 2. That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
• CUTTLE; CUTTLEFISH
  A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally. Note: It has an
• GATHERING
  1. The act of collecting or bringing together. 2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. A charitable contribution; a collection. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• CHALKCUTTER
  A man who digs chalk.
• MEGATHERE; MEGATHERIUM
  An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• SCREW-CUTTING
  Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
• STONECUTTER
  One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
• SCUTTER
  To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle. A mangy little jackal . . . cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows. Kipling.
• WOODCUTTING
  1. The act or employment of cutting wood or timber. 2. The act or art of engraving on wood.