Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cloth which covers the driver's seat in some kinds of carriage, usually falling in plaits on all four sides. See cut under
coach .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The cloth which covers a coach box.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated The
cloth that covers acoachbox .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather – stained pea – green hammercloth moth – eaten into rags, was quite a work of time.
Great Expectations 2007
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First came the Topham Sawyers, in their light-blue carriage with the white hammercloth and blue and white ribbons — their footmen drove the house down with the knocking.
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If you chance to take an elegant drive up the 'Fifth Avenue,' and meet a dashing equipage -- say with horses terribly caparisoned, a purloined crest on the carriage-door, a sallow-faced footman covered up in a green coat, all over big brass buttons, stuck up behind, and a whiskey-faced coachman half-asleep in a great hammercloth, be sure it belongs to some snob who has not a sentence of good English in his head.
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My complexion was pale yellow; on my sides I had coronets and supporters; my inside was soft and comfortable; my rumble behind was satisfactory; and my dicky was perfection, and provided with a hammercloth.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 Various
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Why, 'twas atop of that very blue hammercloth that I first set eyes on my Dove!
Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth moth-eaten into rags, was quite a work of time.
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861
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His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth moth-eaten into rags, was quite a work of time.
Great Expectations 1860
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The Russian coachman drove us over the country in a heavy vehicle, having a large hammercloth, with a recklessness only equalled in Persia.
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His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth moth-eaten into rags, was quite a work of time.
Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1841
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Sawyers, in their light-blue carriage with the white hammercloth and blue and white ribbons -- their footmen drove the house down with the knocking.
A Little Dinner at Timmin's William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
bilby commented on the word hammercloth
Also hammer-cloth.
May 5, 2018