Word Meanings - STACKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Stack. Stacking band, Stacking belt, a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack. -- Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks.

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• STACK
  1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• BIND
  bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh to bind, cf. Gr. cable, and L. 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• STACKET
  A stockade. Sir W. Scott.
• BINDING POST
  A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.
• STACKAGE
  1. Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked. 2. A tax on things stacked. Holinshed.
• BINDING
  That binds; obligatory. Binding beam , the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist , the secondary timber in double-framed flooring. Syn. -- Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic.
• STACKING
  from Stack. Stacking band, Stacking belt, a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack. -- Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks.
• STRAWED
  imp. & p. p. of Straw.
• THATCHING
  1. The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc. 2. The materials used for this purpose; thatch.
• BINDING SCREW
  A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.
• STACK-GUARD
  A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.
• THATCHER
  One who thatches.
• STRAWBOARD
  Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
• STAGECOACHMAN
  One who drives a stagecoach.
• STRAW-COLORED
  Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
• STAGECOACH
  A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
• BINDERY
  A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
• STRAWWORM
  A caddice worm.
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• SPELLBIND
  To bind or hold by, or as if by, a spell or charm; to fascinate, esp. by eloquence of speech, as in a political campaign. - - Spell"bind`er , n.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• HOSTAGE
  A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• BALLASTAGE
  A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
• COSTAGE
  Expense; cost. Chaucer.
• FORESTAGE
  A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.
• OVERBUILD
  1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.