Pillow vs Ticking - What's the difference?
pillow | ticking |
A soft cushion used to support the head in bed.
(geology) A pillow lava.
(engineering) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
(nautical) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
A kind of plain, coarse fustian.
To rest as on a pillow.
* 1942': She had '''pillowed her head on her arm — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 815-6)
A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.
*1897 , Kipling, Captains Courageous ,
A sound of something ticking.
* Laman Blanchard, The Frolics of Time
An illusional style of dance where one moves his or her body to the "tic" of the music creating a strobe or animated effect.
A marking that occurs on some horses. It involves white flecks of hair at the flank, and white hairs at the base of the tail, called a skunk tail or rabicano. Sometimes referred to as birdcatcher ticks.
As nouns the difference between pillow and ticking
is that pillow is a soft cushion used to support the head in bed while ticking is a strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.As verbs the difference between pillow and ticking
is that pillow is to rest as on a pillow while ticking is present participle of lang=en.pillow
English
(wikipedia pillow)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* pillow-biter * pillow block * pillow case * pillow fight * pillowing * pillow lace * pillow lava * pillow sham * pillowyVerb
(en verb)ticking
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(en noun)- Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Were they indeed the tickings of a hundred clocks — the fine low inward breathings of Time's children!