Word Meanings - UNDERPITCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To fill underneath; to stuff. He drank and well his girdle underpight. Chaucer.

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• STUFFING
  Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
• GIRDLESTEAD
  1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. 2. The lap. There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.
• UNDERPIGHT
  imp. of Underpitch.
• GIRDLER
  An American longicorn beetle which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ. (more info) 1. One who girdles. 2. A
• STUFFINESS
  The quality of being stuffy.
• DRANK
  of Drink.
• STUFFER
  One who, or that which, stuffs.
• UNDERNEATH
  Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath. Milton.
• STUFFY
  1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. Jamieson. 2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. 3. Ill-ventilated; close.
• GIRDLE
  A griddle.
• STUFF
  A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 8. Paper stock ground ready for use. Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight. Clear stuff. See
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• ENGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• DYESTUFF
  A material used for dyeing.
• SPLIT STUFF
  Timber sawn into lengths and then split.
• BEGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle.