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water tabby — noun : a tabby fabric with a watered finish … Useful english dictionary
Salt Water Tabby — Морской волк англ. Salt Water Tabby … Википедия
Salt Water Tabby — Infobox Hollywood cartoon cartoon name = Salt Water Tabby series = Tom and Jerry caption = director = William Hanna Joseph Barbera animator = Ed Barge Michael Lah Kenneth Muse musician = Scott Bradley producer = Fred Quimby distributor = Metro… … Wikipedia
Tabby (cement) — Tabby is a building material consisting of lime, sand, water, and crushed oyster shells. It was made and used on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida in the Southern United States during the Colonial Period up… … Wikipedia
Tabby — Tab by, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tabbied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tabbying}.] To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tabby — Tab by, n.; pl. {Tabbies}. [F. tabis (cf. It. tab[ i], Sp. & Pg. tab[ i], LL. attabi), fr. Ar. att[=a]b[=i], properly the name of a quarter of Bagdad where it was made, the quarter being named from the prince Attab, great grandson of Omeyya. Cf.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tabby Concrete — Tabby, a type of concrete made in the seventeenth century, by burning oyster shells to extract the lime, then mixing it with a slurry of water, local sand and broken oyster shells … Wikipedia
tabby — tabby1 /tab ee/, n., pl. tabbies, adj., v., tabbied, tabbying. n. 1. a cat with a striped or brindled coat. 2. a domestic cat, esp. a female one. 3. a spinster. 4. a spiteful female gossip or tattler. 5. See plain weave … Universalium
tabby — 1. noun /ˈtæb.i/ a) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering. b) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions,… … Wiktionary
tabby — I. n. 1. Watered silk. 2. Brindled cat, tabby cat. 3. Gossip, tale bearer, news monger, tattler, chatterer. II. v. a. Water, sprinkle and calender. III. a. 1. Of a waved or watered appearance. 2 … New dictionary of synonyms
