Definition of tailor

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Tailor (n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.

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Pressman :: Pressman (n.) One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman..
Tailor :: Tailor (n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments..
Silversides :: Silversides (n.) Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker..
Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier..
Tailor :: Tailor (n.) The silversides.
Tailor :: Tailor (n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
Hell :: Hell (v. t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type..
Lapboard :: Lapboard (n.) A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors..
Tailored :: Tailored (imp. & p. p.) of Tailo.
Pricklouse :: Pricklouse (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.
Suitor :: Suiting (n.) Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes..
Goose :: Goose (n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose..
Protractor :: Protractor (n.) An adjustable pattern used by tailors.
Cosier :: Cosier (n.) A tailor who botches his work.
Botcher :: Botcher (n.) One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler..
Twist :: Twist (n.) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like..
Snip :: Snip (n.) A tailor.
Tailoring :: Tailoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tailo.
Mattowacca :: Mattowacca (n.) An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring..
Sartorius :: Sartorius (n.) A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting..
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