Word Meanings - DOUSING-CHOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck.

• Apron string
  The string of an apron.
• Uppermost
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
• Uppertendom
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• Lappish
  Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.
• ABOVECITED
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• Lapponian
  Alt. of Lapponic
• ABOVEMENTIONEDABOVENAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• Aboveboard
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception.
• Lapponic
  Laplandish; Lappish.
• APRONMAN
  A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic. [Obs.] Shak.
• Above-cited
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• Fayalite
  A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.
• APRONSTRING
  The string of an apron. To be tied to a wife's or mother's apron strings, to be unduly controlled by a wife or mother. He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. Macaulay.
• Abovedeck
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice.

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