sash
Speech parts
1. sash - Noun
2. sash - Verb
Meaning
A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.
To adorn with a sash or scarf.
The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.
In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.
To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.
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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.
The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.
He could chafe against the rich and privileged but he acknowledged that the army had taken him from the gutter and put an officer's sash round his waiste and Sharpe could think of no other job that would offer a low-born bastard on the run from the law the chance of rank and responsibility.
My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
A common presidential symbol is the presidential sashes worn by mostly Latin American presidents as a symbol of the presidency's continuity, and presenting the sash to the new president.