Word Meanings - TABLELAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau. The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining table- lands To which our God himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.

• Shinney
  The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.
• Close-banded
  Closely united.
• Tables d'hote
  of Table d'hote
• Close-tongued
  Closemouthed; silent.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Landsmen
  of Landsman
• SCALADESCALADO
  See Escalade. Fairfax.
• Scalae
  of Scala
• Scallion
  A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.
• Shindle
  A shingle; also, a slate for roofing.
• Broadleaf
  A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.
• Shinplaster
  Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
• Close-barred
  Firmly barred or closed.
• Table d'hote
  A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.
• Cragsmen
  of Cragsman
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Landsman
  One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• SCALEWINGED
  Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the lepidoptera; scaly-winged.

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