Word Meanings - BRELOQUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A seal or charm for a watch chain. "His chains and breloques." Thackeray.

• Charmeress
  An enchantress.
• Watchtower
  A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.
• Watchword
  A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.
• Charmful
  Abounding with charms.
• CHAINPUMP
  A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water
• Charmless
  Destitute of charms.
• CHAINSTITCH
  A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as distinguished from the lock stitch. See Stitch.
• WATCHMEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• Chainless
  Having no chain; not restrained or fettered.
• Watching
  of Watch
• Watchdog
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• Chain pump
  A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the

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