Word Meanings - COCKFIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A match or contest of gamecocks.
Related words: (words related to COCKFIGHT)
- CONTESTABLE
Capable of being contested; debatable. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - CONTEST
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. To contest an election. To strive to be elected. To dispute the declared result of an election. Syn. -- To - CONTESTATION
1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn - MATCHLOCK
An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match. - MATCH-CLOTH
A coarse cloth. - MATCH PLAY
Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won or lost by each side; -- disting. from medal play. - MATCH
Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by - MATCHMAKING
1. The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning. 2. The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others. - MATCH GAME
A game arranged as a test of superiority; also, one of a series of such games. - MATCH-COAT
A coat made of match-cloth. - CONTESTANT
One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another. - CONTESTINGLY
In a contending manner. - MATCHLESS
1. Having no equal; unequaled. "A matchless queen." Waller. 2. Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited. "Matchless ears." Spenser. -- Match"less*ly, adv. -- Match"less*ness, n. - MATCHABLE
Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent. -- Match"a*ble*ness, n. Sir Walter Raleigh . . . is matchable with the best of the ancients. Hakewill. - MATCHER
One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match. - INCONTESTED
Not contested. Addison. - MISMATCH
To match unsuitably. - IMMATCHABLE
Matchless; peerless. Holland. - UNCONTESTABLE
Incontestable. - PARLOR MATCH
A friction match that contains little or no sulphur. - UNDERMATCH
One who is not a match for another. Fuller. - OVERMATCH
1. To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish. Drayton. 2. To marry to a superior. Burton. - BICKFORD FUSE; BICKFORD FUZE; BICKFORD MATCH
A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.