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APRONED

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a⋅pron

  [ey-pruhn]
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–noun
1. a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing: a kitchen apron.
2. Anglican Church. a similar garment extending to the knees, worn by bishops, deans, and archdeans.
3. a metal plate or cover, usually vertical, for a machine, mechanism, artillery piece, etc., for protecting those who operate it.
4. a continuous conveyor belt for bulk materials, consisting of a chain of steel plates.
5. (in a lathe) a part of the carriage holding the clutches and gears moving the toolholder.
6. a paved or hard-packed area abutting an airfield's buildings and hangars, where planes are parked, loaded, or the like.
7. a broad paved area used for parking cars, as at the end of a driveway.
8. Civil Engineering.
a. any device for protecting a surface of earth, as a riverbank, from the action of moving water.
b. a platform to receive the water falling over a dam.
9. the part of a stage floor in front of the curtain line.
10. Furniture. skirt (def. 6).
11. the outer border of a green of a golf course.
12. the part of the floor of a boxing ring that extends outside the ropes.
13. Also called skirt. a flat, broad piece of interior window trim immediately beneath the sill.
14. a strip of metal set into masonry and bent down to cover the upper edge of flashing; counterflashing.
15. the open part of a pier for loading and unloading vessels.
16. Nautical. (in a wooden vessel) a piece reinforcing the stem on the after side and leading down to the deadwood.
17. Geology. a deposit of gravel and sand at the base of a mountain or extending from the edges of a glacier.
18. the frill of long hairs on the throat and chest of certain long-haired dogs, as the collie.
19. a structure erected around another structure, as for reinforcement or decoration: a high fence surrounded by a wire apron buried in the ground.
–verb (used with object)
20. to put an apron on; furnish with an apron.
21. to surround in the manner of an apron: The inner city is aproned by low-cost housing.
Origin:
1275–1325; 1925–30 for def. 6; 1900–05 for def. 8; ME napron (by later misconstruing a napron as an apron) < MF naperon, equiv. to nape tablecloth (< L mappa napkin; cf. map ) + -ron dim. suffix

Related forms:
a⋅pron⋅like, adjective
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a·pron   (ā'prən)   
n.  

    1. A garment, usually fastened in the back, worn over all or part of the front of the body to protect clothing.

    2. Something, such as a protective shield for a machine, that resembles this garment in appearance or function.

    3. A covering or structure along a shoreline for protection against erosion.

    4. A platform serving a similar purpose below a dam or in a sluiceway.

  2. The paved strip in front of and around airport hangars and terminal buildings.

  3. The part of a stage in a theater extending in front of the curtain.

  4. A platform, as of planking, at the entrance to a dock.

    1. A covering or structure along a shoreline for protection against erosion.

    2. A platform serving a similar purpose below a dam or in a sluiceway.

  6. A continuous conveyor belt.

  7. An area covered by sand and gravel deposited at the front of a glacial moraine.

  8. A border of slightly longer grass that surrounds a green on a golf course.

  9. The part of a boxing ring floor that extends beyond the ropes.

tr.v.   a·proned, a·pron·ing, a·prons
To cover, protect, or provide with an apron.

[Middle English, from an apron, alteration of a napron, from Old French naperon, diminutive of nape, tablecloth, from Latin mappa, napkin; see map.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

apron 
1461, faulty separation of a napron (1307), from O.Fr. naperon, dim. of nappe "cloth," from L. mappa "napkin" (cf. adder, umpire). Napron was still found as late as late 16c. Symbolic of "wife's business" from 1611. Apron-string tenure was in ref. to property held in virtue of one's wife, or during her lifetime only.
"Even at his age, he ought not to be always tied to his mother's apron string." [Anne Brontë, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," 1848]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: apron
Pronunciation: 'A-pr&n, -p&rn
Function: noun
often attributive 1 : a garment usually of cloth or plastic usuallytied around the waist and used especially to protect clothing
2 : an anatomical structure that resembles an apron; especially : HOTTENTOT APRON
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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