apronn.

/ˈeɪprən/

/ˈeɪpən/

Forms: Middle English naperonn, Middle English naprun(e, -onne, napperone, Middle English haprune, Middle English–1500s napron, 1500s aprone, aproneren, aprarne, ap(p)urn, 1500s–1600s aperne, Middle English– apron.

Etymology: < Old French naperon (modern French napperon ), diminutive of nape , nappe , tablecloth < Latin mappa table-napkin. The change of Latin m to French n is also seen in matta , natte , mespilum , nèfle ; the medieval Latin instances of napa , nappa for mappa are probably < French. In English, initial n has been lost by corruption of a napron to an apron . See a adj.

1. An article of dress, originally of linen, but now also of stuff, leather, or other material, worn in front of the body, to protect the clothes from dirt or injury, or simply as a covering.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > apron

barm-clothc1000

barm-hatrec1300

apron1307

belly-cheat1608

base1613

placket1661

belly-piece1689

flag1851

fig leaf1891

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > like a garment

weedOE

robec1225

kirtle1398

vestment1483

vesture1526

apron1535

gabardine1542

garment1585

tire1594

dress1608

garb1613

cowl1658

investiture1660

dressing1835

pinafore1845

cloak1876

1307 in Whitaker Craven in Beck Drapers' Dict. (at cited word) Pro linen tela ad naperonns.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 770/7 Hec limas, a haprune.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 351 Naprun (or barmclothe, supra), limas.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 33 With hir napron feir..She wypid sofft hir eyen.

1461–83 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 36 Lynnen clothe for aprons.

1461–83 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 52 Naprons of the grete spycery.

1466 Paston Lett. II. 268 For ii. napronnes..xd.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. iii. B They..sowed fygge leaues together, and made them apurns [1611 aprons; Wycliffite brechis].

1542 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 27 Nappery ware, as kyrcherys, appurnys, blankytts.

1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 305 A Napron of worsted.

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 75 Bil men, in Almaine Riuetes, and Aperns of Mayle.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. i. 7 Where is thy Leather Apron, and thy Rule?

1750 H. Walpole Corr. 221 II. 370 He would not be waited on by drawers in brown frocks and blue aprons.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iii. 56 A green apron, and a red petticoat.

2. A similar garment worn as part of a distinctive official dress, as by bishops, deans, Freemasons, etc.

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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > apron

apron1654

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > apron > types of

barm-felc1350

barm-skinc1440

ribskin1440

ribbing-skinc1450

fore-smock1536

apron1654

trashbag1688

bib-apron1750

queyu1796

mantlea1825

praskeen1827

dick1838

dicky1847

towser1865

Mother Hubbard1877

barvel1878

waulk-apron1886

1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 145 It more befits a Green-apron-Preacher, than such a Gamaliel.

1704 London Gaz. mmmmxxix/4 Had a black Silk Hood on, a painted Linen Apron.

1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. i. 50 Never be a bishop, nor even wear the lesser apron of a dean.

3. Anything which resembles an apron in shape or function, esp. the leather covering for the legs in a gig or other open carriage.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > board or leather apron at front

apron1790

dashing-leather1794

knee-boot1794

splashing-board1809

splash-board1826

boot1828

dashboard1847

apron-cloth1857

dasher1858

dash1868

splasher1887

storm apron1895

1790 Pennsylv. Packet 22 Apr. 2/1 A new Sulkey, with a top and apron.

1835 C. Dickens in Evening Chron. 21 July 1/3 Cabs, with trunks and band-boxes between the drivers' legs and outside the apron.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. i. iii. 62 The merest apron of leaf and bough.

1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 9 June A movement of his hinder heels in the direction of the cab-apron.

1883 Punch 10 Nov. 226 Strapped and buckled within a leather apron [of a bath-chair].

4. Also in many technical uses:

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a. At the bottom of a sluice or entrance to a dock: A platform placed so as to intercept the fall of water, and prevent the washing away of the bottom.

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b. in Gunnery, A square piece of lead laid over the touch-hole.

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c. in Shipbuilding (see quot. 1850).

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d. in Plumbing, A strip of lead which conducts the drip of a wall into a gutter.

e. (see quot. 1869).

f. in Mechanics. The piece that holds the cutting tool in a planing machine.

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1633 T. James Strange Voy. 75 The Aprons of our Gunnes.

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 25 Raising the Stem and false Stem (or Apron) together.

1719 Glossographia Anglicana Nova (ed. 2) Apron is a piece of Lead which laps over or covers the Touch-hole of a great Gun.

1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 24 The fixing of the Apron of the Sluice to the depth as before observ'd.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. C^v Apron, a platform, or flooring of plank, raised at the entrance of a dock, a little higher than the bottom, against which the dock gates are shut.

1791 R. Mylne in Rep. Engineers Commissioners Navigation Thames 31 A new Pound lock..would..amend the Shallowness over the apron of a new Arch at Radcot Bridge.

1842 Loudon Encycl. Farm. §935 The aprons [of lead] round the chimney-stalks.

1847 Clarke in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. Eng. 8 i. 115 The waters on the cill of the South Holland Sluice have been known to rise, during the summer season, with the sand-bed 5 feet on the apron.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 92 Apron, a kind of false or inner stem, fayed on the aftside of the stem, from the head down to the dead-wood, in order to strengthen it.

1862 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 9) 230 The 2nd captain..attends the apron.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iv. 118 Under the apron of Hampton Court weir.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Apron of a dock, the platform rising where the gates are closed, and on which the sill is fastened down.

1869 Eng. Mech. 24 Dec. 346/1 The electricity..developed on the glass by the friction of the rubbers, is carried over by a kind of sheath, technically called the apron.

1882 L. F. Vernon-Harcourt Rivers & Canals I. vii. 82 Beyond the gate-floor, at each end of the lock, is the apron, which is generally protected from scour by pitching or masonry.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 5/2 The dashboard is of the metal apron type.

g. An endless belt or band for conveying material of any kind, or a receptacle on such a belt. Also apron-conveyor.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > belt

apron1835

belt conveyor1877

conveyor belt1906

belt1908

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. iii. 155 His business is to weigh the wool, and spread it in definite quantities on a travelling apron, which feeds the first pair of rollers.

a1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 126/1 Apron, a board or leather which conducts material over an opening, as, the grain in a separator, the ore in a buddle or frame, etc.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. at Conveyer An apron-conveyer consists of endless chains upon which wood or metal slats are placed close together, forming a continuous traveling platform.

h. A protective covering (on a bank, etc.) against the action of a river or the sea.

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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > protective covering on

aprona1884

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 44/1 Apron, a protecting surface of logs and brush..to protect or to form revetment for river sides.

i. Geology. An outspread alluvial deposit, esp. one at the extremity of a glacier or the mouth of a river.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > by water

roddon1857

platform-mud1863

cone1864

fan1864

levee1870

alluvial fan1873

apron1889

sand-wash1901

scroll1902

spillbank1909

sheet-flow1928

point bar1945

1889 N. S. Shaler in U.S. Geol. Surv. 9th Ann. Rep. 548 In front of the kames normally comes the moranial apron... Traces of this frontal apron exist along the southern shore of Cape Ann.

1955 Sci. Amer. Mar. 82/2 The rivers of the continents have been building aprons into the sea with their wash of silt, clay, sand and gravel.

j. Theatre. (See quot. 1903.) Also apron stage.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > other types of stage

platform stage1869

revolve1900

apron stage1903

picture stage1908

space stage1928

open stage1940

thrust stage1968

1903 A. B. Walkley Dram. Crit. 108 The ‘apron’ is the technical name for the stage-area in front of the curtain. In the Elizabethan theatre it jutted right out among the public, who surrounded it on three sides. This ‘apron’ slowly shrank..till at last in our day it has altogether disappeared.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage i. 20 Turns are being played on the half-stage or upon the apron.

1950 G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 6 May 511/2 The Elizabethan stage..with..an apron stage projecting into the auditorium.

k. A defence against hostile aircraft consisting of a series of wires suspended from a cable to which captive balloons are attached.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > set of captive balloons

apron1917

balloon apron1917

balloon barrage1919

1917 , etc. Balloon apron [see balloon n. Compounds 1c].

1919 C. C. Turner Struggle in Air ix. 134 Then the ‘apron’ was devised, to aircraft a sufficiently dangerous and invisible obstruction which caused raiders to maintain a certain minimum altitude.

l. Military. (See quot. 1918.) Also, a strip of barbed-wire entanglements.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > barbed wire

wire entanglement1871

barbed wire1900

wire1915

concertina1917

apron1918

dannert wire1945

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > parapet > parts of or connected with

talus1645

superior slope1686

bonnet1688

brisure1706

genouillere1802

crémaillère1828

crest1830

plonge1853

plunge1859

apron1918

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Apron, in fortification, that portion of the superior slope of a parapet or the interior slope of a pit designed to protect the slopes against blast.

1926 F. M. Ford Man could stand Up ii. i. 77 There was their own apron—a perfect village!—of wire over which he looked.

m. A flat, usually paved, surface in front of a building, hangar, etc., esp. an area on an aerodrome prepared for the easy handling, (un)loading, etc., of aircraft on the ground.

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society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > paved area

apron1925

ramp1930

parking apron1954

1925 March's Thesaurus Dict. App. 110/1 Apron, an open working surface in front of a hangar.

1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 6 Where the concrete or asphalt apron in front of the buildings meets the aerodrome.

1954 C. Armstrong Better to eat You iii. 24 Opposite a three-car garage there was a wide paved apron.

1954 C. Armstrong Better to eat You vi. 63 He..ran across..the parking apron.

1955 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. 6/5 The waving base is on the ‘airside’ as distinct from the ‘landside’ of the building, and thus gives a clear view of the aircraft leaving the ‘terminal apron’.

n. A wooden platform trailed aft by the mother ship of a flying boat as a landing platform or for smoothing rough water. (Now disused.)

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > platform trailed aft for flying boat

apron1933

1933 Discovery Dec. 366/1 To make the call for refuelling the Westfalen is equipped with an apron which can be let out over the stern and trailed slightly below the surface of the water. The seaplanes will thus have a fairly smooth area of water on which they can alight if the sea is rough.

1941 Flight 24 Apr. 294/1 These ships made use of ‘aprons’ trailed in the water aft of the vessel... The advantage of the apron was that it reduced to a few minutes the time which the flying boat had to spend on the open sea.

o. Photography. (See quot. 1940.)

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > other processing or printing equipment

filter paper1670

buffer1854

fuming-box1874

squeegee1878

light trap1881

changing table1882

print-washer1889

washer1891

safe lamp1893

rectifier1921

apron1935

1935 News Chron. Amateur Photogr. v. 89 Next tuck the film end underneath the flexible apron so that the clip is holding both the apron and the end of the film.

1940 F. J. Mortimer Wall's Dict. Photogr. (ed. 15) Apron, band of celluloid or other material used to separate successive turns of film when rolled up for development in a tank.

a. ‘The caul of a hog.’ Halliwell. apron of a roast goose (also apron of a duck): the skin covering the belly, which is cut to get at the stuffing.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > cuts or parts of fowl

wingc1470

soul?a1475

giblet1546

merrythought1598

sideman1632

sidesman1642

drumstick1646

pinion1655

side bone1712

chicken liver1733

pope's nose1788

liver wing1796

apron1807

parson's nose1836

stumps1845

oyster1855

supreme1856

wishbone1860

pulling bone1877

carcass1883

pully-bone1897

pull-bonea1903

chicken breast1941

chicken tender1955

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Apron of a goose, the fat skin which covers the belly.

1807 M. E. Rundell New Syst. Domest. Cookery (ed. 2) p. xxxi Cut off the apron in the circular line a, b, c.

b. (See quot. 1876.)

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > parts of crab

partan toea1568

tongs1608

apron1855

cart1860

1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 267 These [crabs] were lying apron upwards on the ground.

1876 Field & Forest 2 73 This mass is very conspicuous even in the rapidly swimming crab, and causes the abdominal flap (called apron by fishermen) to be opened almost to its fullest extent.

c. Hottentot apron: see Hottentot apron n. at Hottentot n. and adj. Compounds.

Compounds

General attributive. Also apron-string n.

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apron-cloth n. (see sense 3).

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > board or leather apron at front

apron1790

dashing-leather1794

knee-boot1794

splashing-board1809

splash-board1826

boot1828

dashboard1847

apron-cloth1857

dasher1858

dash1868

splasher1887

storm apron1895

1857 ‘Porte Crayon’ Virginia Illustr. ii. 139 The apron-cloth was drawn up over their legs and with a..crack of the whip they started into the storm.

apron husband n. one that meddles with his wife's business.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband > husband who meddles in wife's affairs

apron husband1611

1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. F2^v I cannot abide these aperne husbands: such cotqueanes.

apron-lining n. the cover of the apron-piece.

† apron-man n. Obsolete a mechanic; an ‘aproner’.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker

workmaneOE

handworker1480

manuary1581

hand labourer1583

manualist1592

operator1598

apron-mana1616

aproneer1659

apron-rogue1664

handler1763

blue-collar1951

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. vi. 100 You haue made good worke, You and your Apron men .

a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 429 Apron-men and Plough-joggers.

apron-piece n. a small piece of timber supporting the joists under the landing-place in a stair.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > other supports for stair

pitching piece1819

spandrel1833

apron-piece1842

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 894 Apron, or Pitching Piece, an horizontal piece of timber, in wooden double-flighted stairs, for supporting the carriage pieces or rough strings and joistings in the half spaces or landings. The apron pieces should be firmly wedged into the wall.

† apron-rogue n. Obsolete a workman, mechanic.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker

workmaneOE

handworker1480

manuary1581

hand labourer1583

manualist1592

operator1598

apron-mana1616

aproneer1659

apron-rogue1664

handler1763

blue-collar1951

1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding i. i, in Comedies & Trag. 76 Apron-Rogues, with horn hands.

apron-squire n. = apple-squire n.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp

putourc1390

panderc1450

mitchera1500

apple-squire?1536

squire of dames or ladies1590

apron-squire1593

bed-broker1594

pimp1600

pippin squire1600

petticoat-monger1605

smockster1608

underputter1608

broker-between1609

squire of the placket1611

squire1612

fleshmongera1616

cock bawd1632

whiskin1632

pimp-whiskin1638

bully1675

foot pimp1690

mutton-broker1694

pimp whisk1707

flash-man1789

panderer1826

bludger1856

whoremaster1864

mack1894

lover1904

jelly bean1905

procureur1910

P.I.1928

sweetback1929

sweet man1942

nookie-bookie1943

papasan1970

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 83 b They will..play the Brokers, Baudes, Apron-squires, Pandars, or any thing.

apron wall n. Building (see quot. 1934).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > other specific types of wall

firewall?1666

truss-partition1823

bearing wall1833

sleeper wall1845

curtain wall1859

fender wall1894

cavity wall1910

apron wall1934

storage wall1945

spine wall1949

curtain walling1958

sleeper walling1971

Trombe1978

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Apron wall, that portion of the enclosing wall of a building between a window-head or lintel of one story and the sill of the window in the story above or, sometimes, only that portion between the floor line and the window sill of the same story.

1952 Archit. Rev. 111 262 A new system of wall construction (which can be briefly described as 3-ply apron walls formed in-situ).

C2.

apron-like adj.

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1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 326/2 The..apron-like fold that covers the greater part of the intestinal canal.

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单词	apron
释义	apronn. /ˈeɪprən//ˈeɪpən/ Forms: Middle English naperonn, Middle English naprun(e, -onne, napperone, Middle English haprune, Middle English–1500s napron, 1500s aprone, aproneren, aprarne, ap(p)urn, 1500s–1600s aperne, Middle English– apron. Etymology: < Old French naperon (modern French napperon ), diminutive of nape , nappe , tablecloth < Latin mappa table-napkin. The change of Latin m to French n is also seen in matta , natte , mespilum , nèfle ; the medieval Latin instances of napa , nappa for mappa are probably < French. In English, initial n has been lost by corruption of a napron to an apron . See a adj. 1. An article of dress, originally of linen, but now also of stuff, leather, or other material, worn in front of the body, to protect the clothes from dirt or injury, or simply as a covering. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > apron barm-clothc1000 barm-hatrec1300 apron1307 belly-cheat1608 base1613 placket1661 belly-piece1689 flag1851 fig leaf1891 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > like a garment weedOE robec1225 kirtle1398 vestment1483 vesture1526 apron1535 gabardine1542 garment1585 tire1594 dress1608 garb1613 cowl1658 investiture1660 dressing1835 pinafore1845 cloak1876 1307 in Whitaker Craven in Beck Drapers' Dict. (at cited word) Pro linen tela ad naperonns. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 770/7 Hec limas, a haprune. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 351 Naprun (or barmclothe, supra), limas. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 33 With hir napron feir..She wypid sofft hir eyen. 1461–83 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 36 Lynnen clothe for aprons. 1461–83 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 52 Naprons of the grete spycery. 1466 Paston Lett. II. 268 For ii. napronnes..xd. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. iii. B They..sowed fygge leaues together, and made them apurns [1611 aprons; Wycliffite brechis]. 1542 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 27 Nappery ware, as kyrcherys, appurnys, blankytts. 1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 305 A Napron of worsted. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 75 Bil men, in Almaine Riuetes, and Aperns of Mayle. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. i. 7 Where is thy Leather Apron, and thy Rule? View more context for this quotation 1750 H. Walpole Corr. 221 II. 370 He would not be waited on by drawers in brown frocks and blue aprons. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iii. 56 A green apron, and a red petticoat. 2. A similar garment worn as part of a distinctive official dress, as by bishops, deans, Freemasons, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > apron apron1654 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > apron > types of barm-felc1350 barm-skinc1440 ribskin1440 ribbing-skinc1450 fore-smock1536 apron1654 trashbag1688 bib-apron1750 queyu1796 mantlea1825 praskeen1827 dick1838 dicky1847 towser1865 Mother Hubbard1877 barvel1878 waulk-apron1886 1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 145 It more befits a Green-apron-Preacher, than such a Gamaliel. 1704 London Gaz. mmmmxxix/4 Had a black Silk Hood on, a painted Linen Apron. 1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. i. 50 Never be a bishop, nor even wear the lesser apron of a dean. 3. Anything which resembles an apron in shape or function, esp. the leather covering for the legs in a gig or other open carriage. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > board or leather apron at front apron1790 dashing-leather1794 knee-boot1794 splashing-board1809 splash-board1826 boot1828 dashboard1847 apron-cloth1857 dasher1858 dash1868 splasher1887 storm apron1895 1790 Pennsylv. Packet 22 Apr. 2/1 A new Sulkey, with a top and apron. 1835 C. Dickens in Evening Chron. 21 July 1/3 Cabs, with trunks and band-boxes between the drivers' legs and outside the apron. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. i. iii. 62 The merest apron of leaf and bough. 1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 9 June A movement of his hinder heels in the direction of the cab-apron. 1883 Punch 10 Nov. 226 Strapped and buckled within a leather apron [of a bath-chair]. 4. Also in many technical uses: Thesaurus » a. At the bottom of a sluice or entrance to a dock: A platform placed so as to intercept the fall of water, and prevent the washing away of the bottom. Thesaurus » Categories » b. in Gunnery, A square piece of lead laid over the touch-hole. Thesaurus » Categories » c. in Shipbuilding (see quot. 1850). Categories » d. in Plumbing, A strip of lead which conducts the drip of a wall into a gutter. e. (see quot. 1869). f. in Mechanics. The piece that holds the cutting tool in a planing machine. ΚΠ 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 75 The Aprons of our Gunnes. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 25 Raising the Stem and false Stem (or Apron) together. 1719 Glossographia Anglicana Nova (ed. 2) Apron is a piece of Lead which laps over or covers the Touch-hole of a great Gun. 1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 24 The fixing of the Apron of the Sluice to the depth as before observ'd. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. C^v Apron, a platform, or flooring of plank, raised at the entrance of a dock, a little higher than the bottom, against which the dock gates are shut. 1791 R. Mylne in Rep. Engineers Commissioners Navigation Thames 31 A new Pound lock..would..amend the Shallowness over the apron of a new Arch at Radcot Bridge. 1842 Loudon Encycl. Farm. §935 The aprons [of lead] round the chimney-stalks. 1847 Clarke in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. Eng. 8 i. 115 The waters on the cill of the South Holland Sluice have been known to rise, during the summer season, with the sand-bed 5 feet on the apron. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 92 Apron, a kind of false or inner stem, fayed on the aftside of the stem, from the head down to the dead-wood, in order to strengthen it. 1862 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 9) 230 The 2nd captain..attends the apron. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iv. 118 Under the apron of Hampton Court weir. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Apron of a dock, the platform rising where the gates are closed, and on which the sill is fastened down. 1869 Eng. Mech. 24 Dec. 346/1 The electricity..developed on the glass by the friction of the rubbers, is carried over by a kind of sheath, technically called the apron. 1882 L. F. Vernon-Harcourt Rivers & Canals I. vii. 82 Beyond the gate-floor, at each end of the lock, is the apron, which is generally protected from scour by pitching or masonry. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 5/2 The dashboard is of the metal apron type. g. An endless belt or band for conveying material of any kind, or a receptacle on such a belt. Also apron-conveyor. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > belt apron1835 belt conveyor1877 conveyor belt1906 belt1908 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. iii. 155 His business is to weigh the wool, and spread it in definite quantities on a travelling apron, which feeds the first pair of rollers. a1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 126/1 Apron, a board or leather which conducts material over an opening, as, the grain in a separator, the ore in a buddle or frame, etc. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. at Conveyer An apron-conveyer consists of endless chains upon which wood or metal slats are placed close together, forming a continuous traveling platform. h. A protective covering (on a bank, etc.) against the action of a river or the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > protective covering on aprona1884 a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 44/1 Apron, a protecting surface of logs and brush..to protect or to form revetment for river sides. i. Geology. An outspread alluvial deposit, esp. one at the extremity of a glacier or the mouth of a river. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > by water roddon1857 platform-mud1863 cone1864 fan1864 levee1870 alluvial fan1873 apron1889 sand-wash1901 scroll1902 spillbank1909 sheet-flow1928 point bar1945 1889 N. S. Shaler in U.S. Geol. Surv. 9th Ann. Rep. 548 In front of the kames normally comes the moranial apron... Traces of this frontal apron exist along the southern shore of Cape Ann. 1955 Sci. Amer. Mar. 82/2 The rivers of the continents have been building aprons into the sea with their wash of silt, clay, sand and gravel. j. Theatre. (See quot. 1903.) Also apron stage. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > other types of stage platform stage1869 revolve1900 apron stage1903 picture stage1908 space stage1928 open stage1940 thrust stage1968 1903 A. B. Walkley Dram. Crit. 108 The ‘apron’ is the technical name for the stage-area in front of the curtain. In the Elizabethan theatre it jutted right out among the public, who surrounded it on three sides. This ‘apron’ slowly shrank..till at last in our day it has altogether disappeared. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage i. 20 Turns are being played on the half-stage or upon the apron. 1950 G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 6 May 511/2 The Elizabethan stage..with..an apron stage projecting into the auditorium. k. A defence against hostile aircraft consisting of a series of wires suspended from a cable to which captive balloons are attached. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > set of captive balloons apron1917 balloon apron1917 balloon barrage1919 1917 , etc. Balloon apron [see balloon n. Compounds 1c]. 1919 C. C. Turner Struggle in Air ix. 134 Then the ‘apron’ was devised, to aircraft a sufficiently dangerous and invisible obstruction which caused raiders to maintain a certain minimum altitude. l. Military. (See quot. 1918.) Also, a strip of barbed-wire entanglements. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > barbed wire wire entanglement1871 barbed wire1900 wire1915 concertina1917 apron1918 dannert wire1945 society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > parapet > parts of or connected with talus1645 superior slope1686 bonnet1688 brisure1706 genouillere1802 crémaillère1828 crest1830 plonge1853 plunge1859 apron1918 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Apron, in fortification, that portion of the superior slope of a parapet or the interior slope of a pit designed to protect the slopes against blast. 1926 F. M. Ford Man could stand Up ii. i. 77 There was their own apron—a perfect village!—of wire over which he looked. m. A flat, usually paved, surface in front of a building, hangar, etc., esp. an area on an aerodrome prepared for the easy handling, (un)loading, etc., of aircraft on the ground. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > paved area apron1925 ramp1930 parking apron1954 1925 March's Thesaurus Dict. App. 110/1 Apron, an open working surface in front of a hangar. 1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 6 Where the concrete or asphalt apron in front of the buildings meets the aerodrome. 1954 C. Armstrong Better to eat You iii. 24 Opposite a three-car garage there was a wide paved apron. 1954 C. Armstrong Better to eat You vi. 63 He..ran across..the parking apron. 1955 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. 6/5 The waving base is on the ‘airside’ as distinct from the ‘landside’ of the building, and thus gives a clear view of the aircraft leaving the ‘terminal apron’. n. A wooden platform trailed aft by the mother ship of a flying boat as a landing platform or for smoothing rough water. (Now disused.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > platform trailed aft for flying boat apron1933 1933 Discovery Dec. 366/1 To make the call for refuelling the Westfalen is equipped with an apron which can be let out over the stern and trailed slightly below the surface of the water. The seaplanes will thus have a fairly smooth area of water on which they can alight if the sea is rough. 1941 Flight 24 Apr. 294/1 These ships made use of ‘aprons’ trailed in the water aft of the vessel... The advantage of the apron was that it reduced to a few minutes the time which the flying boat had to spend on the open sea. o. Photography. (See quot. 1940.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > other processing or printing equipment filter paper1670 buffer1854 fuming-box1874 squeegee1878 light trap1881 changing table1882 print-washer1889 washer1891 safe lamp1893 rectifier1921 apron1935 register board1967 1935 News Chron. Amateur Photogr. v. 89 Next tuck the film end underneath the flexible apron so that the clip is holding both the apron and the end of the film. 1940 F. J. Mortimer Wall's Dict. Photogr. (ed. 15) Apron, band of celluloid or other material used to separate successive turns of film when rolled up for development in a tank. 5. a. ‘The caul of a hog.’ Halliwell. apron of a roast goose (also apron of a duck): the skin covering the belly, which is cut to get at the stuffing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > cuts or parts of fowl wingc1470 soul?a1475 giblet1546 merrythought1598 sideman1632 sidesman1642 drumstick1646 pinion1655 side bone1712 chicken liver1733 pope's nose1788 liver wing1796 apron1807 parson's nose1836 stumps1845 oyster1855 supreme1856 wishbone1860 pulling bone1877 carcass1883 pully-bone1897 pull-bonea1903 chicken breast1941 chicken tender1955 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Apron of a goose, the fat skin which covers the belly. 1807 M. E. Rundell New Syst. Domest. Cookery (ed. 2) p. xxxi Cut off the apron in the circular line a, b, c. b. (See quot. 1876.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > parts of crab partan toea1568 tongs1608 apron1855 cart1860 1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 267 These [crabs] were lying apron upwards on the ground. 1876 Field & Forest 2 73 This mass is very conspicuous even in the rapidly swimming crab, and causes the abdominal flap (called apron by fishermen) to be opened almost to its fullest extent. c. Hottentot apron: see Hottentot apron n. at Hottentot n. and adj. Compounds. Compounds General attributive. Also apron-string n. C1. apron-cloth n. (see sense 3). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > board or leather apron at front apron1790 dashing-leather1794 knee-boot1794 splashing-board1809 splash-board1826 boot1828 dashboard1847 apron-cloth1857 dasher1858 dash1868 splasher1887 storm apron1895 1857 ‘Porte Crayon’ Virginia Illustr. ii. 139 The apron-cloth was drawn up over their legs and with a..crack of the whip they started into the storm. apron husband n. one that meddles with his wife's business. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband > husband who meddles in wife's affairs apron husband1611 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. F2^v I cannot abide these aperne husbands: such cotqueanes. apron-lining n. the cover of the apron-piece. † apron-man n. Obsolete a mechanic; an ‘aproner’. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker workmaneOE handworker1480 manuary1581 hand labourer1583 manualist1592 operator1598 apron-mana1616 aproneer1659 apron-rogue1664 handler1763 blue-collar1951 a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. vi. 100 You haue made good worke, You and your Apron men . View more context for this quotation a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 429 Apron-men and Plough-joggers. apron-piece n. a small piece of timber supporting the joists under the landing-place in a stair. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > other supports for stair pitching piece1819 spandrel1833 apron-piece1842 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 894 Apron, or Pitching Piece, an horizontal piece of timber, in wooden double-flighted stairs, for supporting the carriage pieces or rough strings and joistings in the half spaces or landings. The apron pieces should be firmly wedged into the wall. † apron-rogue n. Obsolete a workman, mechanic. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker workmaneOE handworker1480 manuary1581 hand labourer1583 manualist1592 operator1598 apron-mana1616 aproneer1659 apron-rogue1664 handler1763 blue-collar1951 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding i. i, in Comedies & Trag. 76 Apron-Rogues, with horn hands. apron-squire n. = apple-squire n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp putourc1390 panderc1450 mitchera1500 apple-squire?1536 squire of dames or ladies1590 apron-squire1593 bed-broker1594 pimp1600 pippin squire1600 petticoat-monger1605 smockster1608 underputter1608 broker-between1609 squire of the placket1611 squire1612 fleshmongera1616 cock bawd1632 whiskin1632 pimp-whiskin1638 bully1675 foot pimp1690 mutton-broker1694 pimp whisk1707 flash-man1789 panderer1826 bludger1856 whoremaster1864 mack1894 lover1904 jelly bean1905 procureur1910 P.I.1928 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 nookie-bookie1943 papasan1970 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 83 b They will..play the Brokers, Baudes, Apron-squires, Pandars, or any thing. apron wall n. Building (see quot. 1934). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > other specific types of wall firewall?1666 truss-partition1823 bearing wall1833 sleeper wall1845 curtain wall1859 fender wall1894 cavity wall1910 apron wall1934 storage wall1945 spine wall1949 curtain walling1958 sleeper walling1971 Trombe1978 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Apron wall, that portion of the enclosing wall of a building between a window-head or lintel of one story and the sill of the window in the story above or, sometimes, only that portion between the floor line and the window sill of the same story. 1952 Archit. Rev. 111 262 A new system of wall construction (which can be briefly described as 3-ply apron walls formed in-situ). C2. apron-like adj. ΚΠ 1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 326/2 The..apron-like fold that covers the greater part of the intestinal canal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022). apronv. /ˈeɪprən/ Etymology: < apron n. To cover with, or as with, an apron. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > as with garment > specific overshrouda1522 enveil1555 scarf1598 bemantle1620 superinvest1624 buskin1795 apron1865 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iv. 25 I mean to apron it and towel it. 1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley III. xvi. 230 The..bramble aproned the yellow dugs of shale with brown. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1307v.1865
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