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skull-thatcher

skull-thatcher noun: a maker of straw bonnets.

Noun

skull-thatcher (plural skull-thatchers)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A maker of straw bonnets.
    • Having been sent to London on a medical trip by his uncle, Mr. Quince, he had become smitten with a fair milliner — a skull-thatcher, anglice, a maker of straw bonnets, but with no more money in her purse than would buy a dose of salts […]1828, Cumberland's Minor Theatre, page 5
    • 'Which accounts for your frequent attendance, loveliest of skull thatchers!' said Harry in a polite bantering tone, which did not make the intended sarcasm less apparent.1859, J. W. Overton, Harry Hartley; or, Social science for the workers, volume 420, page 29

Forms of skull-thatcher

pluralskull-thatchers

Questions about skull-thatcher

What does skull-thatcher mean?
Skull-thatcher means a maker of straw bonnets.
What part of speech is skull-thatcher?
Skull-thatcher is a noun.
What is the plural of skull-thatcher?
The plural of skull-thatcher is skull-thatchers.

Words near skull-thatcher in the dictionary

  1. skull-measurers
  2. skull-pan
  3. skull-pans
  4. skull-splitter
  5. skull-splitting
  6. skull-thatcher
  7. skull-thatchers
  8. skullbone
  9. skullbones
  10. skullcap
  11. skullcapflavone

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