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hammer-cloth

hammer-cloth is the alternative form of hammercloth.

Meaning of hammercloth

Noun

hammercloth (plural hammercloths)

  1. (archaic, historical) The cloth that covers a coachbox.
    • Nevertheless, a hackney-coachman, who seemed to have as many capes to his greasy great-coat as he was years old, packed me up in his coach and hemmed me in with a folding and jingling barrier of steps, as if he were going to take me fifty miles. His getting on his box, which I remember to have been...1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 2

Forms of hammer-cloth

pluralhammer-cloths

Questions about hammer-cloth

What is hammer-cloth the alternative form of?
Hammer-cloth is the alternative form of hammercloth.

Words near hammer-cloth in the dictionary

  1. hammer throwers
  2. hammer throws
  3. hammer toe
  4. hammer toes
  5. hammer up
  6. hammer-cloth
  7. hammer-cloths
  8. hammer-dressed
  9. hammer-dressing
  10. hammer-harden
  11. hammer-hardened

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