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A small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing
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mothball
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Word definitions for mothball in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mothball \moth"ball`\ v. t. To put into long-term storage; as, to mothball the battleships not needed after the war.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An additional experiment demonstrated that the smell of mothballs had the same effect. ▪ And the plants that Thorn-EMI set up to press the discs will remain in mothballs. ▪ Marie said, following Helen along the hallway with ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mothballs are small balls of chemical pesticide and deodorant , sometimes used when storing clothing and other articles susceptible to damage from mold or moth larvae (especially clothes moths like Tineola bisselliella ). Use of mothballs when clothing ...
Usage examples of mothball.
Something off Mothball Row that would have to be flown to Barathrum and torn .
By the end of the day he had sold 80 percent of the merchandise: broken pots, worn galoshes, balls of tinfoil left over from a World War II scrap drive, odd lots of spare parts for obsolete machines, mothballed clothing, chipped bric-a-brac, a brass lamp in the shape of a pregnant alligator.
The corridors are wallpapered with an exquisitely disgusting floral print and the whole place smells of mothballs, the only symptom of the twenty-first century being a cheap and nasty webcam on the hall staircase.
Others were fifty-year-old crimson-red diplomatic cruisers, and warships recently recommissioned from mothballed fleets.
He had a single air-tank rig on with a full facemask, because, below the main deck, the mothballed battlewagon had been backfilled with nitrogen gas to displace all the oxygen.
The directorate maintains it in the leading Earth--Sun Lagrangian point with the rest of the mothball fleet.
I remember it because Wisconsin had been the last one of the battlewagons to be reactivated, and yet it was the first one to go back into mothballs after Desert Storm.
One of the mothballed heavy cruisers over in the west yard had settled right to the bottom over the period of a month, flooding out the opened steam turbines and eight boilers left opened under a dry layup.
It was so near that an odour came off it -- like the odour of cachous from old evening bags, of yellowing dance-programmes, of fox-fur long laid in mothballs.
Others were fifty-year-old crimson-red diplomatic cruisers, and warships recently recommissioned from mothballed fleets.
One in the Apps had contained several mothballed war wags on which the Trader had based his whole operation.
Jeremy avoids studying it too closely lest he discover that the mothballs have not worked.
Indeed, some defense savings had been effected by demobilizing units and mothballing ships and planes.
Each had survived many distinguished twentieth-century missions, more than three quarters of a century lying in mothballs in Florida, rededication in the names of heroes of the socialist revolution, and a three-hundred-million kilometer trip to the asteroid belt.
The latter were enclosed in garment bags, and a strong smell of mothballs wafted out as Julie began opening them.