Crossword clues for axminster
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Axminster \Ax"min*ster\, n., or Axminster carpet \Axminster carpet\ .
[More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made.
A similar but cheaper machine-made carpet, resembling moquette in construction and appearance, but finer and of better material. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||
Wiktionary
n. A carpet made in Axminster imitating the Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile. n. A town in England.
Wikipedia
Axminster is a market town and civil parish on the eastern border of the county of Devon in England, some from the county town of Exeter. The town is built on a hill overlooking the River Axe which heads towards the English Channel at Axmouth, and is in the East Devon local government district. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 5,626, increasing to 5,761 at the 2011 census. The town contains two electoral wards (town and rural) the total sum of both wards being a population of 7,110. The market is still held every Thursday.
Axminster gave its name to a type of carpet. An Axminster-type power loom is capable of weaving high quality carpets with many varying colours and patterns. While Axminster carpets are made in the town by Axminster Carpets Ltd, this type of carpet is now manufactured all over the world.
Usage examples of "axminster".
The middle-aged handicap hurdler plodding sleepily round the ring was the third Axminster horse I had ridden during the week, and I had already grown to appreciate the sleekness and slickness of his organization.
But at the vital point when he had attracted public attention with a string of successes and had begun to ride regularly for James Axminster, one of the very top trainers, something had happened to spoil it.
He had lost the Axminster job, and other trainers booked him less and less.
I rode for James Axminster, and I knew I had been asked because he had not wanted to risk injury to his usual jockey.
I was to ride for James Axminster in the last race on the card had as vile a reputation as his stablemate of the previous day and I had made completing the race my sole target.
James Axminster looked at the number boards where the weights the horses carried were recorded, if they differed from those printed in the race cards.
I had been engaged to ride that afternoon, and when I walked out into the weighing room, Axminster was waiting for me.
As I went down the room I saw Grant Oldfield standing by my peg, holding a paper in his hand, and on drawing nearer I was annoyed to find that it was the list of horses James Axminster had given me.
I came out Axminster gave me another list of horses, four of them, which he wanted me to ride the following week.
Tick-Tock kept it where he lived, seven miles away, near the stable he rode for, and came to collect me whenever Axminster himself was not taking me to meetings in his own car.
Thursday evening James Axminster telephoned to my digs and asked me to go up to his house.
Berkshire, and the following morning, Monday, I walked up to the Axminster stables to see James.
It served only two farms and one private house, and because of its quietness it was a regular route for the Axminster horses on roadwork days.
Their head housekeeper, skinny and tough as a piece of barbed wire, placed both freckled hands on the gazebo railing and glared at Axminster Stoker.
They have advanced, I hear, upon Axminster, where they must meet the Duke of Albemarle, who hath set out from Exeter with four thousand of the train bands.