hammercloth
/ˈhæməɹˌklɒθ/
hammercloth noun: the cloth that covers a coachbox.
Noun
hammercloth (plural hammercloths)
- 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
- The mulberry-colored coach, apparently not too large for what it contained, though she alone was in it; the handsome, jolly coachman and his splendid hammer-cloth loaded with lace1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter VI, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, part 1st (In Town), page 54
Forms of hammercloth
| plural | hammercloths |
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Origin of hammercloth
Probably from Dutch hemel (“heaven, canopy, tester”) (akin to German Himmel, and perhaps also to English heaven) + cloth; or perhaps a corruption of hamper cloth.
Questions about hammercloth
- What does hammercloth mean?
- Hammercloth means the cloth that covers a coachbox.
- What part of speech is hammercloth?
- Hammercloth is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hammercloth?
- Hammercloth is pronounced /ˈhæməɹˌklɒθ/.
- What is the plural of hammercloth?
- The plural of hammercloth is hammercloths.
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