Word Meanings - NECKCLOTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.

Related words: (words related to NECKCLOTH)

• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• AROUND
  1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• FABRICATE
  1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. 2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens. 3. To invent and form; to forge; to
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• FABRICATOR
  One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• FABRIC
  1. The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric. 2. That which is fabricated; as : Framework; structure; edifice; building. Anon out of the earth a fabric
• FABRICANT
  One who fabricates; a manufacturer. Simmonds.
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• FABRICATION
  1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke. 2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication. Syn.
• FABRICATRESS
  A woman who fabricates.
• PIECENER
  1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2.
• PIECE
  One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. 6. A castle; a fortified building. Spenser. Of a piece, of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. Dryden. -- Piece of eight, the Spanish piaster,
• PIECEWORK
  Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• INFABRICATED
  Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
• SEAPIECE
  A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.
• SIDEPIECE
  The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
• APIECES
  In pieces or to pieces. "Being torn apieces." Shak.
• FRONTISPIECE
  The part which first meets the eye; as: The principal front of a building. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. (more info) beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons
• CROWNPIECE
  A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle. A coin See Crown, 19.