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sash

/sæʃ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
  2. A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
  3. To adorn with a sash.
  4. The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
  5. A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
  6. 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; the gate.
  7. To furnish with a sash.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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