Word Meanings - TRACKAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.
Related words: (words related to TRACKAGE)
- TOWELING
Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc. - TOWNWARD; TOWNWARDS
Toward a town. Longfellow. - TOWNLESS
Having no town. Howell. - TOW
The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle. - TOWARD; TOWARDS
1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - TOWILLY
The sanderling; -- so called from its cry. - TOWARDS
See TOWARD - TRACKWALKER
A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks. - TOWARDNESS
Quality or state of being toward. - TOWER
To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar. On the other side an high rock towered still. Spenser. My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. Shak. - TOWERED
Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton. - TOWLINE
A line used to tow vessels; a towrope. - TOWROPE
A rope used in towing vessels. - TOWALL
A towel. Chaucer. - TOWNSMAN
1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another. Pope. 2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman. - TRACKMAN
One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker. - TOWERING
1. Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height. Pope. 2. Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing. A man agitated by a towering passion. Sir W. Scott. - TOWSER
A familiar name for a dog. - TOWNHOUSE
A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall. - STOW
1. To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. Dryden. - STOWCE
A windlass. A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land. - JAMESTOWN WEED
The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium , a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum. - TRICKTRACK
An old game resembling backgammon. - STOWAWAY
One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.