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Cloth
·noun The dress; raiment. [Obs.] ·see <<Clothes>>.
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Broad
·superl Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
II. Broad ·superl Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
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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.
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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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cloth market
He is just come from the cloth market, i.e. from between the sheets, he is just risen from bed.
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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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Broad Church
·- A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respec...
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Broad gauge
·- A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half...
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Broad seal
·- The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state.
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Broad-brimmed
·adj Having a broad brim.
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Broad-horned
·adj Having horns spreading widely.
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Broad-leafed
·adj Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.
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Broad-leaved
·adj ·Alt. of Broad-leafed.
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Broad Alley
In parish of St. Margaret Lothbury, mentioned in will of Sir Henry Kebyll, 1514. Site now covered by...
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Broad Court
See St. James' Place.
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Broad Street
See Old Broad Street, New Broad Street, Little Broad Street.
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Broad Walk
In the Tower precincts (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Also called "Northumberland Place" in P.C. Survey.
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broad-leaf
n.
a settlers' name for Griselinia littoralis, Raoul; Maori name, Paukatea.
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broad arrow
The royal mark for government stores of every description. To obliterate, deface, or remove this mar...
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broad axe
Formerly a warlike instrument; also for beheading; specially applied to the axe of carpenters for ma...
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broad pennant
A swallow-tailed piece of buntin at the mast-head of a man-of-war; the distinctive mark of a commodo...
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broad r.
See broad arrow.
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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).
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devil's table-cloth
See table-cloth.
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Broad Street Avenue
West out of New Broad Street, at No. 17, to Blomfield Street (P.O. Directory).
First mention: L.C.C...
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Broad Street Buildings
South out of Liverpool Street, at Nos. 2, 5, and 11 (P.O. Directory).
Formerly these buildings form...
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Broad Street Chambers
At 37 Old Broad Street, opposite Winchester Street, by the Excise Office (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831)....
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Broad Street Mews
West out of New Broad Street at its junction with Broad Street Buildings. In Bishopsgate Ward Withou...
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Broad Street Place
West out of Blomfield Street (P.O. Directory), forming part of East Street.
First mention: Lockie, ...
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Broad Street Station
On the north side of Liverpool Street, North London Railway Terminus (P.O. Directory). On the wester...
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Broad Street Ward
One of the twenty-six wards of the City, bounded north and east by Bishopsgate Ward, north and west ...
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Little Broad Street
South from Throgmorton Street to Threadneedle Street. In Broad Street Ward (Strype, 1720-Lond. Guide...
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New Broad Street
North out of Old Broad Street to Liverpool Street (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Without. Als...
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Old Broad Street
South from London Wall and Wormwood Street to No.53 Threadneedle Street (P.O. Directory). In Broad S...
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broad of water
An extensive lake with a channel communicating with the sea, or a wide opening of a river after pass...
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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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Broad Street Ward School
See Coleman Street Ward School.
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French Court, Broad Street
See Hercules' Passage.
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New Broad Street Court
On the east side of Broad Street Buildings. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (O.S.1880).
The site is now...
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Adam Court, Old Broad Street
See Adam's Court.
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New Court, Old Broad Street
South-east out of Old Broad Street, in Broad Street Ward, at No.7 (Rocque, 1746-Elmes, 1831).
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shaking a cloth in the wind
In galley parlance, expresses the being slightly intoxicated.
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Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate
See Foster Street.
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White Horse Court, Old Broad Street
See Union Court; White Horse Inn, Yard.
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White Horse Yard, Old Broad Street
See Flying Horse Yard.
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Ward Schools, Broad Street Ward and Coleman Street Ward
See Coleman Street Ward School.
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