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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

... leading to another apartment at which the figure of a woman, preceded hastily by a thrown dishcloth, had just appeared. It was Mrs. McKinstry; her sleeves were rolled up over her red but still shapely arms, and as she stood there wiping them on her apron, with her elbows advanced, and her closed hands raised alternately in the air, there was an odd pugilistic suggestion in her attitude. It was not lessened on her sudden discovery of the master by her retreating backwards with her hands ...

— Cressy • Bret Harte

... tried desperately hard to be good and have the good wish, but it was difficult work. Something always went wrong; she tore her apron or read books when she ought to have been dusting, or—— Well, you or I would probably have given it up at once, and devoted ourselves to earning the bad wish. But Wiggs was a nice ...

— Once on a Time • A. A. Milne

... beds, I suppose we must lie in them," said Nora, shaking the broken pieces out of her apron into a basket ...

— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett

... observed merely: "The less you scattered the more you might have." After he had gone the woman's husband remonstrated with her, bidding her keep the coals, for the Earthman appeared in earnest with his gift. When they reached home, however, she shook out her apron on the hearth, and behold! instead of coals, glittering true gold pieces. The woman now sought eagerly enough after the coals she had thrown away, ...

— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland

... have no chance to do it again, Scotty, if you don't hurry up after the doctor," said Sary, wiping her eyes on her dirty calico apron, thereby adding an effective ...

— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

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