Definitions for apron

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apron a·pron

Spelling: [ey-pruh n]

IPA: /ˈeɪ prən/

Apron is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in apron (anopr).

Definitions for apron

noun

1. a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
2. Anglican Church. a similar garment extending to the knees, worn by bishops, deans, and archdeans.
3. a metal plate or cover, usually vertical, for a machine, mechanism, artillery piece, etc., for protecting those who operate it.
4. a continuous conveyor belt for bulk materials, consisting of a chain of steel plates.
5. (in a lathe) a part of the carriage holding the clutches and gears moving the toolholder.
6. a paved or hard-packed area abutting an airfield's buildings and hangars, where planes are parked, loaded, or the like.
7. a broad paved area used for parking cars, as at the end of a driveway.
8. Civil Engineering. any device for protecting a surface of earth, as a riverbank, from the action of moving water. a platform to receive the water falling over a dam.
9. the part of a stage floor in front of the curtain line.
10. Furniture. skirt (def 6).
11. the outer border of a green of a golf course.
12. the part of the floor of a boxing ring that extends outside the ropes.
13. Also called skirt. a flat, broad piece of interior window trim immediately beneath the sill.
14. a strip of metal set into masonry and bent down to cover the upper edge of flashing; counterflashing.
15. the open part of a pier for loading and unloading vessels.
16. Nautical. (in a wooden vessel) a piece reinforcing the stem on the after side and leading down to the deadwood.
17. Geology. a deposit of gravel and sand at the base of a mountain or extending from the edges of a glacier.
18. the frill of long hairs on the throat and chest of certain long-haired dogs, as the collie.
19. a structure erected around another structure, as for reinforcement or decoration:

verb (used with object)

1. to put an apron on; furnish with an apron.
2. to surround in the manner of an apron:

Origin of apron

1275-1325; 1925-30 for def 6; 1900-05 for def 8; Middle English napron (by later misconstruing a napron as an apron) Middle French naperon, equivalent to nape tablecloth (Latin mappa napkin;

Examples for apron

A housekeeper came out to buy some, wiping her hands on her apron.

Tillie, at Mrs. McKee's, stood in the doorway and fanned herself with her apron.

"David's harnessin' now," said Mary, beginning to untie her apron.

Dilly got briskly up and gathered a drawer-full of papers into her apron.

Democrats' didn't get the allegiance of women by hectoring them, by saying take off that apron, GOP housewives, and join us.

An office manager, he says, was wearing an apron with Santa on it.

While caring for patients, clinical staff is heavily robed with gown and apron; three pairs of gloves; a hood; and goggles.

A Chinese mountaineer held a green raincoat over his waist like an apron, covering his nakedness.

Mrs. Pendleton hurried forward, wiping her hands on her apron as she went.

Mistress Affery, with a suppressed cry, threw her apron over her head.