Word Meanings - BARRINGOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.

• Closehauled
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• Doorstone
  The stone forming a threshold.
• Doorstop
  The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
• Rebellion
  The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for
• Closemouthed
  Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.
• Schoolmaster
  The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
• Againstand
  To withstand.
• Schoolroom
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• Closeness
  The state of being close.
• Schoolship
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the cour
• CLOSEBANDED
  Closely united.
• Boyishness
  The manners or behavior of a boy.
• Closereefed
  Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.
• CLOSEBARRED
  Firmly barred or closed.

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