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skull-thatchers

skull-thatchers is the plural of skull-thatcher.

Meaning of skull-thatcher

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

Questions about skull-thatchers

What is skull-thatchers the plural of?
Skull-thatchers is the plural of skull-thatcher.

Words near skull-thatchers in the dictionary

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

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