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Word Meanings - TRACKAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.

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  • 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.

 

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