Synonyms of the word headgear


HEADGEARCLOTHING - HABILIMENT - HEADDRESS - HOIST - SADDLERY - TACK - VESTURE - WEAR - WEARABLE

headgear

  • n. (uncountable) Anything worn on the head, such as a helmet.
  • n. The harness that fits on a horse's head.
  • n. The lifting gear at the head of a mine or deep well.
  • n. (nautical) the rigging on the foresail.
  • n. (orthodontics) A type of orthodontic appliance attached to dental braces that aids in correcting severe…

clothing

  • v. present participle of clothe.
  • n. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination…
  • n. An act or instance of putting clothes on.
  • n. (obsolete) The art of process of making cloth.
  • n. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation…

habiliment

  • n. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
  • n. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

headdress

  • n. A decorative covering or ornament worn on the head.
  • n. A hairdo.

hoist

  • v. (transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate; especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means…
  • v. (transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
  • v. (intransitive) To be lifted up.
  • v. (transitive, computing theory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
  • n. A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
  • n. The act of hoisting; a lift.
  • n. The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff.
  • n. The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff.
  • n. The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.

saddlery

  • n. (uncountable) The trade or craft of a saddler.
  • n. A place of business of a saddler.
  • n. The inventory and equipment of a saddler.

tack

  • n. A small nail with a flat head.
  • n. A thumbtack.
  • n. (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
  • n. (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
  • n. (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind. See also reach, gybe.
  • n. A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
  • n. (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes…
  • n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
  • n. (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled;…
  • n. Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated…
  • n. (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive…
  • n. Hardtack.
  • n. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
  • n. (law, Scotland) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
  • n. (obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
  • v. To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
  • v. To sew/stich with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
  • v. (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes…
  • v. To add something as an extra item.
  • v. Often paired with "up", to place the tack on a horse.
  • n. A stain; a tache.
  • n. (obsolete) A peculiar flavour or taint.
  • n. (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.

vesture

  • n. A covering of or like clothing.
  • v. (archaic) To clothe.

wear

  • v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
  • v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
  • v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
  • v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
  • v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
  • v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
  • v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
  • v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
  • v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
  • v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
  • v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
  • v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
  • v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
  • v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
  • n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
  • n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
  • n. (uncountable) fashion.

wearable

  • adj. Able to be worn.
  • n. Something that can be worn; an item of clothing.
  • n. (computing) Clipping of wearable computer (“small computer which can be worn on the body”).

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