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Cloth
·noun The dress; raiment. [Obs.] ·see <<Clothes>>.
II. Cloth ·noun The distinctive dress of any pro...
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Market
·noun The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
II. Market ·noun Exchange, or purc...
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Bearing cloth
·- A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
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Carborundum cloth
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Carborundum paper.
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Cheese cloth
·add. ·- A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
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Goring cloth
·noun A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.
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Gunny cloth
·- A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus C...
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Henrietta cloth
·add. ·- A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.
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Lady's cloth
·add. ·- A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, ·etc.
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Match-cloth
·noun A coarse cloth.
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Thibet cloth
·- A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.
II. Thibet cloth ·- A kind of fine woolen...
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Top-cloth
·noun A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect ...
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Cloth Fair
East out of West Smithfield at No. 59 to Kiughorn Street (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Withou...
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Cloth Street
South out of
First mention: O.S. 188-51.
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Cloth Yard
Out of Dunning's Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in th...
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broad cloth
Square sails.
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buntline-cloth
The lining sewed up the fore-part of the sail in the direction of the buntline to prevent that rope ...
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goring-cloth
See goring
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table-cloth
A fleecy-looking cloud which sometimes covers the "table" or flat top of Table Mountain, at the Cape...
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Market-place
Any place of public resort, and hence a public place or broad street (Matt. 11:16; 20:3), as well as...
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Sheep-market
Occurs only in John 5:2 (marg., also R.V., "sheep-gate"). The word so rendered is an adjective, and ...
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Beef Market
In Leadenhall Market (P.C. 1732).
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Billingsgate Market
See Billingsgate.
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Clothes' Market
On the east side of Houndsditch, north of the Clothes' Exchange. It seems to be entered through Phil...
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Farringdon Market
Between Farringdon Street east and Shoe Lane west, north of Stonecutter Street, in Farringdon Ward W...
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Fish Market
See Old Fish Market and Leadenhall.
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Fleet Market
Erected over the course of the Fleet or New Canal, after it had been enclosed and arched over, above...
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Flesh Market
See Leadenhall.
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Gracechurch Market
There are frequent references in the Liber Albus and the City Letter Books to the sale of corn at "G...
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Green Market
See Leadenhall.
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Hutchison's Market
On the east side of Hutchison Street, between that street and Middlesex Street (O.S. ed. 1875-O.S. e...
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Leadenhall Market
On the south side of Leadenhall Street between Gracechurch Street and Lime Street, at No. 88 Gracech...
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Market Buildings
In Mincing Lane at No. 29 (P.O. Directory).
First named, 1872 (L.C.C. List, 1901).
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Market Passage
1) In Paternoster Row, Cheapside, leading into Newgate Market (Strype, ed. 1755-Poyle, 1799).
Not n...
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Meal Market
On the south side of Upper Thames Street at Queenhithe (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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Newgate Market
Between Rose Street, Newgate Street, and Paved Alley, Paternoster Row, in Castle Baynard Ward and Fa...
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Smithfield Market
On the south side of Charterhouse Street, north of West Smith field, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O...
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Stocks Market
The City market so called occupied a large tract of ground at the junction of Coruhill, Threadneedle...
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Winchester Market
Shop of Henry le Wimpler in Winchester market and his chest in seld of Robert de Arraz, 1281 (Ct. H....
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Woolchurch Market
See Stocks Market.
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Pi-a cloth
·add. ·- A fine fabric for scarfs, handkerchiefs, embroidery, ·etc., woven from the fiber obtained f...
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Cloth Workers' Court
North out of White Friers, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
See Paved Alley and Ashentr...
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devil's table-cloth
See table-cloth.
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Herb Market, Leadenhall
The southernmost portion of Leadenhall Market. In Bishopsgate Ward Within (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 17...
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Hide, Hides Market
See Leadenhall Market.
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Honey Lane Market
On the east side of Milk Street, at the north end of Honey Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate War...
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Old Fish Market
In the parishes of St. Mary Magdalene, St. Nicholas Cold abbey, and St. Nicholas Olave in Old Fish S...
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Appius, Market Of
Revised Version for Appii Forum. (Acts 28:16)
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Market Of Appius
(Acts 28:15) In the Revised Version for Appii Forum of the Authorized Version, which see.
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The Back Alley, Cloth Fair
See Back Court.
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Back Streate, Cloth Fair
See Back Court.
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King Street, Cloth Fair
See Kinghorn Street, Cloth Fair.
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Kinghorn Street, Cloth Fair
South out of Cloth Fair, at No. 63, to Bartholomew Close, in Farringdon Ward Without.
Renamed 1885....
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cloth in the wind
Too near to the wind, and sails shivering. Also, groggy.
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Crown Inn, Newgate Market
See Crown Court6, Warwick Lane.
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Fowle Lane, Newgate Market
See King Edward Street.
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George Alley, Fleet Market
West from Fleet Market to Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Leake, 1666-Lockie, 1816).
In 1708...
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Goose Alley, Fleet Market
See Braziers' Buildings.
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Metropolitan Market, West Smithfield
See London Central Markets.
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Rose Alley, Newgate Market
See Rose Street.
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Black Bear Alley, Fleet Market
See Back Bear Alley
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shaking a cloth in the wind
In galley parlance, expresses the being slightly intoxicated.
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Little Conduit by the Stocks Market
Erected about 1500 (S. 18). In Walbrook Ward. Removed after the Fire 1666 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. i. 2...
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finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose