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Definition: HAMMERCLOTH |
HAMMERCLOTHNoun1. The cloth which covers a coach box. |
Date "HAMMERCLOTH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Etymology: Hammercloth \Ham"mer*cloth`\ , noun. [Probably from Dutch hemel heaven, canopy, tester (akin to German himmel, and perhaps also to English heaven) English cloth; or perhaps corruption of hamper cloth.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Hammercloth The cloth that covers the coach-box, in which hammer, nails, bolts, etc., used to be carried in case of accident. Another etymology is from the Icelandic hamr (a skin), skin being used for the purpose. A third suggestion is that the word hammer is a corruption of "hammock," the seat which the cloth covers being formed of straps or webbing stretched between two crutches like a sailor's hammock. Still another conjecture is that the word is a corruption of "hamper cloth," the hamper being used for sundry articles required, and forming the coachman's box. The word box seems to favour this suggestion. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hammercloth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | ammerclothhay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-h-l-m-m-o-r-t" | |
-3 letters: chelator, chlorate, chromate, trochlea. | |
-4 letters: armhole, chaloth, cholate, cholera, chorale, choreal, chortle, clammer, hatchel, hatcher, loather, locater, matcher, rathole, rematch, teraohm, thermal, trachle, trammel, trochal, trommel. | |
-5 letters: armlet, calmer, camlet, cartel, chaleh, chalet, chalot, chetah, choler, choral, chorea, chroma, chrome, clamor, claret, clothe, coaler, coater, colter, comate, cometh, cormel, halter, hamlet, hammer, harlot, health, hearth, hector, lather, lector, loathe, locate, marcel, marmot, merlot, molter, morale, mortal, mother, ochrea, orache, oracle, rachet, recoal, rectal, rochet, rotche, thaler, thecal, tocher, tramel, troche. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-h-l-m-m-o-r-t" | |
+3 letters: thermochemical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 4D 4D 45 52 43 4C 4F 54 48 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -- -- . .-. -.-. .-.. --- - .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01001101 01001101 01000101 01010010 01000011 01001100 01001111 01010100 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A M M E R C L O T H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 004D 004D 0045 0052 0043 004C 004F 0054 0048 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4235474739523746495442 |
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