Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as dreadnaught, 3.
- n. A machine with a main cylinder, workers, and strippers with steel hooks, or teeth, for teasing or opening wool preparatory to carding.
Wiktionary
- n. A fearless person.
- n. A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught
- n. by extension A warm garment, especially one made of this cloth.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A fearless person.
- n. A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.
Etymologies
- fear + naught (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At the powder magazine, flannel “fearnaught” curtains were hung and soaked, lest fire flash through and detonate the whole ship like a bomb.”
“Are made of thick fearnaught, or of double baize, with holes through which to pass the powder; these holes to be covered by broad flaps of the same material.”
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
“He is specially charged with the care and distribution of articles for stopping shot-holes or repairing other injuries to the hull, which may be received in action, viz.: shot-plugs and mauls; pieces of pine board from eighteen inches to three feet long, and from twelve to fifteen inches wide, covered with felt or fearnaught, previously coated with tar or white lead; patches of sheet-lead, all with nail-holes punched; and trouser-slings for lowering men outside the vessel, to be provided with a pouch or pocket, to contain a hammer and nails.”
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
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