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n fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.

A dagger. [Obs.] When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.

e, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

Same as Bumkin.

A little boot, legging, or gaiter.

Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.

A dagger; a bodkin. [Obs.]

A buskin or half-boot. [Written also brodequin.] [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. [Obs.] Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. Shak.

The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson.

The skin of a buck.

Greatness in bulk; size.

(a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) Onr from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [Written also boomkin.]

An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.

Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.

oot, coming some distance up the leg. The hunted red deer's undressed hide Their hairy buskins well supplied. Sir W. Scott.

Wearing buskins. Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope.

A drinking between meals. [Obs.]

The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.