Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
dreadnaught , 3. - noun A machine with a main cylinder, workers, and strippers with steel hooks, or teeth, for teasing or opening wool preparatory to carding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fearless person.
- noun A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fearless person. - noun A
stout woolen cloth of greatthickness ;dreadnaught - noun by extension A warm
garment , especially one made of this cloth.
Etymologies
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Examples
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At the powder magazine, flannel “fearnaught” curtains were hung and soaked, lest fire flash through and detonate the whole ship like a bomb.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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At the powder magazine, flannel “fearnaught” curtains were hung and soaked, lest fire flash through and detonate the whole ship like a bomb.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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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. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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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. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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