hammer-clothn.

Etymology: Derivation unknown. The conjecture in quot. 1854 at main sense is obviously untenable: the coachman's ‘box’ is not known before 1600. De Quincey, Autobiog. Germ. Stud., 1836, (Wks. 1889 II. 83) has a conjecture that hammer-cloth is ‘a corruption < hamper-cloth .’ Prof. Skeat has compared Dutch hemel ‘heaven, canopy, tester’, citing from Hexham den Hemel van de koetse ‘the Seeling of a Coach.’ But these suggestions are not corroborated by the evidence. See also hammock-cloth n., with which this is either connected or confused.

A cloth covering the driver's seat or ‘box’ in a state or family coach. (In quot. 1465 applied to a material.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > seat > driver's seat > cloth covering

hammer-cloth1465

1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 315 My mastyr bout of Baron of Hadlegthe xlj. elles of hamerclothe.

155. in Archæol. XVI. 91 Hamer clothes, with our arms and badges of our colours, and all other things apperteininge unto the same wagon.

1736 R. West Let. 24 May in T. Gray Corr. (1971) I. 43 I never knew before that the golden fangs on hammer-cloths were so old a fashion.

1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 166 Hammer-cloths are among the principal ornaments to a carriage.

1854 C. Knight Once upon a Time II. 18 The [coach] man carried a hammer, pincers, nails, ropes, and other appliances in case of need; and the hammer-cloth was devised to conceal these..remedies for broken wheels and shivered panels.

Derivatives

hammer-clothed adj.

/ˈhæməklɒθt/

/ˈhæməklɔːθt/ provided with a hammer-cloth.

ΚΠ

1862 G. A. Sala Accepted Addr. 182 The great..heavy hammer-clothed, double-seated family Carriage.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	hammer-cloth
释义	hammer-clothn. Etymology: Derivation unknown. The conjecture in quot. 1854 at main sense is obviously untenable: the coachman's ‘box’ is not known before 1600. De Quincey, Autobiog. Germ. Stud., 1836, (Wks. 1889 II. 83) has a conjecture that hammer-cloth is ‘a corruption < hamper-cloth .’ Prof. Skeat has compared Dutch hemel ‘heaven, canopy, tester’, citing from Hexham den Hemel van de koetse ‘the Seeling of a Coach.’ But these suggestions are not corroborated by the evidence. See also hammock-cloth n., with which this is either connected or confused. A cloth covering the driver's seat or ‘box’ in a state or family coach. (In quot. 1465 applied to a material.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > seat > driver's seat > cloth covering hammer-cloth1465 1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 315 My mastyr bout of Baron of Hadlegthe xlj. elles of hamerclothe. 155. in Archæol. XVI. 91 Hamer clothes, with our arms and badges of our colours, and all other things apperteininge unto the same wagon. 1736 R. West Let. 24 May in T. Gray Corr. (1971) I. 43 I never knew before that the golden fangs on hammer-cloths were so old a fashion. 1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 166 Hammer-cloths are among the principal ornaments to a carriage. 1854 C. Knight Once upon a Time II. 18 The [coach] man carried a hammer, pincers, nails, ropes, and other appliances in case of need; and the hammer-cloth was devised to conceal these..remedies for broken wheels and shivered panels. Derivatives hammer-clothed adj. /ˈhæməklɒθt//ˈhæməklɔːθt/ provided with a hammer-cloth. ΚΠ 1862 G. A. Sala Accepted Addr. 182 The great..heavy hammer-clothed, double-seated family Carriage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1465
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