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hammercloths

hammercloths is the plural 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

Questions about hammercloths

What is hammercloths the plural of?
Hammercloths is the plural of hammercloth.

Words near hammercloths in the dictionary

  1. hammerbeam
  2. hammerbeams
  3. hammerblow
  4. hammerblows
  5. hammercloth
  6. hammercloths
  7. hammered
  8. hammered and sickled
  9. hammered away
  10. hammered dulcimer
  11. hammered dulcimerist

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