Dictionary Entry
buckram
buckram is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 21 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
- 2noun
A plant. See Ramson.
- 3adjective
Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.
- 4adjective
Stiff; precise.
- 5transitive verb
To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
- 6noun
a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing
- 7verb
stiffen with or as with buckram
"buckram the skirt"
- 8adjective
rigidly formal
"a starchy manner"
"the letter was stiff and formal"
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