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Word Meanings - GAITER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe. 2. A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle.

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  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • 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.
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • WHOLENESS
    The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
  • CLOTHESLINE
    A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
  • ANKLED
    Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled. Beau. & Fl.
  • WHOLE-HOOFED
    Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
  • 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.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • LEATHERY
    Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
  • ANKLE
    The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus. Ankle bone, the bone of the ankle; the astragalus. (more info) ökkla, ökli, Dan. and Sw. ankel, D. enklaauw, enkel, G. enkel, and perh. OHG. encha, ancha thigh, shin: cf. Skr. anga limb,
  • CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
    1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • CLOTHESHORSE
    A frame to hang clothes on.
  • WHOLESALE
    1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
  • SAILCLOTH
    Duck or canvas used in making sails.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • BEDCLOTHES
    Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
  • HEARSECLOTH
    A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.
  • CRANKLE
    To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.
  • NECKCLOTH
    A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
  • BROADCLOTH
    A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
  • UNCLOTHED
    Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
    Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

 

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