Word Meanings - SAILCLOTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Duck or canvas used in making sails.

• Make-game
  An object of ridicule; a butt.
• MAKINGIRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• Makeless
  Matchless.
• Make-peace
  A peacemaker.
• Canvasback
  A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.
• Canvassed
  of Canvass
• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• Canvassing
  of Canvass
• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• Canvasser
  One who canvasses.
• Making-iron
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.

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