Word Meanings - FORESTALLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. Locke.
Related words: (words related to FORESTALLER)
- MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - MARKETER
One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market. - MARKETSTEAD
A market place. Drayton. - LOCKER
1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or - LOCKET
1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain. - LOCKEN
of Lock. Chaucer. - MARKETABLE
1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country. - MARKET
The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market - MARKETING
1. The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market. 2. Articles in, or from, a market; supplies. - LOCKED-JAW
See LOCKJAW - NEWMARKET
A long, closely fitting cloak. - GLOCKENSPIEL
An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon. - UNDERLOCKER
A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer. - SLOCK; SLOCKEN
To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake. - LANDLOCKED
Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon. (more info) 1. Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land.