Herringbone vs Herringboned - What's the difference?
herringbone | herringboned |
A bone of a herring
* 1884: Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry
A zigzag pattern, especially made by bricks, on a cloth, or by stitches in sewing
* 1861: Charlotte Yonge, The Young Step-Mother
* 1922: James Joyce, Ulysses
(skiing) A method of climbing a hill by pointing the skis outward in a V-shape to keep from sliding backwards.
Twilled fabric woven in rows of parallel sloping lines
To stitch in a herringbone pattern.
* 1899 , Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
(skiing) To climb a hill by pointing the skis outward in a V-shape to keep from sliding backwards.
(herringbone)
A bone of a herring
* 1884: Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry
A zigzag pattern, especially made by bricks, on a cloth, or by stitches in sewing
* 1861: Charlotte Yonge, The Young Step-Mother
* 1922: James Joyce, Ulysses
(skiing) A method of climbing a hill by pointing the skis outward in a V-shape to keep from sliding backwards.
Twilled fabric woven in rows of parallel sloping lines
To stitch in a herringbone pattern.
* 1899 , Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
(skiing) To climb a hill by pointing the skis outward in a V-shape to keep from sliding backwards.
As verbs the difference between herringbone and herringboned
is that herringbone is to stitch in a herringbone pattern while herringboned is (herringbone).As a noun herringbone
is a bone of a herring.herringbone
English
Alternative forms
* herring-boneNoun
(en noun)- The prosperity of Amsterdam was then so great that it was said that Amsterdam was "founded on herring-bones ."
- 'The best path of life is but a herring-bone pattern.'
- Mr Bloom walked behind the eyeless feet, a flatcut suit of herringbone tweed.
Verb
(herringbon)- When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
herringboned
English
Verb
(head)herringbone
English
Alternative forms
* herring-boneNoun
(en noun)- The prosperity of Amsterdam was then so great that it was said that Amsterdam was "founded on herring-bones ."
- 'The best path of life is but a herring-bone pattern.'
- Mr Bloom walked behind the eyeless feet, a flatcut suit of herringbone tweed.
Verb
(herringbon)- When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
