Word Meanings - STAYMAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose occupation is to make stays.

Related words: (words related to STAYMAKER)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• STAYSHIP
  A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• STAYSAIL
  Any sail extended on a stay.
• INOCCUPATION
  Want of occupation.
• DISOCCUPATION
  The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
• PREOCCUPATION
  1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.