Word Meanings - WANTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon

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• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• SURCINGLE
  The girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist. (more info) 1. A belt, band, or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.
• STRAP
  1. To beat or chastise with a strap. 2. To fasten or bind with a strap. Cowper. 3. To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
• BINDING POST
  A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.
• BINDING
  That binds; obligatory. Binding beam , the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist , the secondary timber in double-framed flooring. Syn. -- Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic.
• LEATHERBACK
  A large sea turtle , having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.
• LEATHERY
  Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
• BINDING SCREW
  A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.
• STRAPPLE
  To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman.
• BINDERY
  A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
• STRAPWORK
  A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
• LEATHER
  1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively. 2. The skin. Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather. Leather
• LEATHERET; LEATHERETTE
  An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.
• BIND
  bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh to bind, cf. Gr. cable, and L. 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to
• LEATHERN
  Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.
• LEATHERHEAD
  The friar bird.
• SURCINGLED
  Bound with the surcingle.
• BINDINGLY
  So as to bind.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• SPELLBIND
  To bind or hold by, or as if by, a spell or charm; to fascinate, esp. by eloquence of speech, as in a political campaign. - - Spell"bind`er , n.
• OVERLEATHER
  Upper leather. Shak.
• SUBINDEX
  A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices.
• BOOKBINDERY
  A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.
• ESTRAPADE
  The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.
• CORNBIND
  A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus.