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noun

Sash n. A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.

Sash n.

The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.

In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; also called gate.

French sash, a casement swinging on hinges; in distinction from a vertical sash sliding up and down.

verb

Sash v. t. To adorn with a sash or scarf.

Sash v. t. (past & past part. sashed; pres. part. sashing) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.

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"Sash" Quotes from Famous Books

... thirty feet into a hall near the junior's room, if by chance my awkwardness had not made me swerve. I got off with two badly flayed knees, but did not give them a second thought. My heel had broken into a part of the sash of that deuced window, and smashed half a dozen panes, which dropped with a frightful crash quite near the kitchen entrance. A great noise arose at once among the lay sisters, and through the opening I had just made, we could hear Sister Theresa's ...

— Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools • Emilie Kip Baker

... hats, their well-shaped legs incased in smalls, their dainty Hessian boots, their ruffling frills, their canes and dangling seals. No wonder the little maiden in the big poke-bonnet and the light-blue sash casts down her eyes and is completely won. Men could win hearts in clothes like that. But what can you expect from baggy trousers and ...

— Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome

... struggling with the door. Then, realizing that she could not open it, she ran to the nearest window which looked out on the lawn and the path-head. Tugging at the sash she flung it open, and next fell to work at the shutter-bars. As she threw wide the shutters, and put one knee on the sill, Milo Standish caught her by the shoulder. Roughly drawing her back into the ...

— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune

... German to find Emma serenely emerging from unconsciousness. Once she had taken Gertrude to the dentist—another dentist, an elderly man, practising in a frock-coat in a heavily-furnished room with high sash windows, the lower sashes filled with stained glass. There had been a driving March wind and Gertrude with a shawl round her face had battled gallantly along shouting through her shawl. Miriam had made out nothing clearly, but the fact that the dentist's ...

— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson

... seen a Ward case made in this way, in which the capabilities for producing ornamental effect were greatly beyond many of the most elaborate ones of the shops. It was large, and roomy, and cheap. Common window-sash and glass are not dear, and any man with moderate ingenuity could fashion such a glass closet for his wife; or a woman, not having such a husband, can do ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

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