Word Meanings - RAKESTALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to RAKESTALE)

• HANDLESS
  Without a hand. Shak.
• WORTH
  1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
• WORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her
• WORTHFUL
  Full of worth; worthy; deserving. Marston.
• WORTHY
  A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. The blood of ancient worthies
• WORTHILY
  In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly. You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. Dryden. Some may very worthily deserve to be hated. South.
• WORTHLESS
  Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate. 'T is a worthless world to win
• HANDLE
  1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. Milton. 2. To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to
• HANDLEABLE
  Capable of being handled.
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• PETWORTH MARBLE
  A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
• PANHANDLE STATE
  West Virginia; -- a nickname.
• CHANDLERY
  Commodities sold by a chandler.
• PENNYWORTH
  1. A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. "A dear pennyworth." Evelyn. 2. Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain. The priests sold the better pennyworths. Locke. 3.
• PANHANDLE
  The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.
• OVERHANDLE
  To handle, or use, too much; to mention too often. Shak.
• LAUGHWORTHY
  Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson.
• SEAWORTHINESS
  The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather. Kent.
• DEARWORTH
  Precious. Piers Plowman.
• SEAWORTHY
  Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
• UNWORTH
  Unworthy. Milton.
• PRAISEWORTHILY
  In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser.