Cloth

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cloth \Cloth\ (kl[o^]th; 115), n.; pl. {Cloths} (kl[o^][th]z;
     115), except in the sense of garments, when it is {Clothes}
     (kl[=o]thz or kl[=o]z). [OE. clath cloth, AS. cl[=a][thorn]
     cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. kl[ae][eth]i, Dan.
     kl[ae]de, cloth, Sw. kl[aum]de, G. kleid garment, dress.]
     1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire,


        as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton,
        woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments;
        specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all
        others.
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     2. The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See {Clothes}.
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              I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread.
                                                    --Quarles.
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     3. The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the
        clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
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              Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they
              tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to
              their cloth?                          --Macaulay.
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              The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for
              administering and for giving the best possible
              effect to . . . every axiom.          --I. Taylor.
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     {Body cloth}. See under {Body}.
  
     {Cloth of gold}, a fabric woven wholly or partially of
        threads of gold.
  
     {Cloth measure}, the measure of length and surface by which
        cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard
        yard is usually divided into quarters and nails.
  
     {Cloth paper}, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and
        finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth
  
     {shearer}, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous
        nap.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cloth
       n : artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or
           crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in
           the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent"; "woven
           cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she
           measured off enough material for a dress" [syn: {fabric},
            {material}, {textile}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "cloth":
     act drop, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, batten, boltrope,
     border, canonicals, canvas, ceremonial attire, clericals, clew,
     coulisse, counterweight, cringle, crowd of sail, curtain,
     curtain board, cyclorama, decor, drapery, drop, drop curtain,
     earing, episcopal vestments, etoffe, fabric, felt, fire curtain,
     flat, flipper, foot, fore-and-aft sail, goods, hanging, head, lace,
     leech, liturgical garments, luff, material, muslin, napery,
     plain sail, pontificalia, pontificals, press of sail, rag,
     reduced sail, reef point, reefed sail, robes, sail, scene, scenery,
     screen, side scene, silk, square sail, stage screw, stuff, tab,
     tableau, teaser, textile, textile fabric, texture, the cloth,
     tissu, tissue, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene,
     vestments, vesture, weave, web, weft, wing, wingcut, woodcut, woof,
     wool