Word Meanings - SLOPSELLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.

Related words: (words related to SLOPSELLER)

• SLOPSHOP
  A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• SLOPSELLER
  One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.
• CLOTHESPIN
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• CLOTHES
  1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes,
• CLOTHESPRESS
  A receptacle for clothes.
• READY-WITTED
  Having ready wit.
• READY
  A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim. All ready, ready in every particular; wholly equipped or prepared. " am all redy at
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• ALREADY
  Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• THREADY
  1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
• UNREADY
  1. Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy. Dryden. Nor need the unready virgin strike her breast. Keble. 2. Not dressed; undressed.
• SHORTCLOTHES
  Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
• GRAVECLOTHES
  The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
• UNDERCLOTHES
  Clothes worn under others, especially those worn next the skin for warmth.