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noun

Apron n.

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; as,

(a)

The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. (Prov. Eng.)

(b)

A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. "The weather being too hot for the apron."

(c)

(Gun.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.

(d)

(Shipbuilding) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel..

(e)

A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.

(f)

A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

(g)

(Mech.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.

(h)

(Plumbing) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.

(i)

(Zool.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.

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"Apron" Quotes from Famous Books

... while Potter slowly drew off his apron, carefully folded it and tucked it into a corner. He moved very deliberately, as though reluctant to leave his chief. Had Hollis shown the slightest sign of weakening Potter would have stayed. But watching closely he saw no sign of weakness ...

— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer

... the head of the stairs, there stood the still trim and active figure of an old woman, with something of the mouse likeness seen in her grand-daughter, in the close cap, high hat, and cloth dress, that sumptuary opinion, if not law, prescribed for the burgher matron, a white apron, silver chain and bunch of keys at her girdle. Due and loving greetings passed between mother and son, after the longest and most perilous absence of Master Headley's life, and he then presented Giles, to whom the ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... his arm in, between this coat and a gardening apron, and jerked forth a silently squirming youth, perhaps eighteen years ...

— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune

... apron over her face and went out of the kitchen into her own room. The old woman continued to go round the table, gathering the plates, but very evidently busy with something else; and indeed humming or talking to herself, in a ...

— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner

... mother had time to change her mind, and John-James began slowly to rinse the china through the darkened water, on whose surface the grease lay in a shimmering arabesque. Annie went round the kitchen rasping the chairs over the stone floor and making futile dabs at their seats with her apron. She had that curious uncertainty of aim usually seen in dogs, who never seem to be sure of touching the ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse

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