trass

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch tras or German Trass, probably from Italian terrazzo (“terrace”). See terrace.

Noun

trass (countable and uncountable, plural trasses)

  1. (geology) A white to grey volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders, sometimes used as a cement.
  2. A coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Presumably from German trotz

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trɑsː/

Noun

trass m (definite singular trassen, uncountable)
or
trass n (definite singular trasset, uncountable)

  1. spite, stubbornness, contrariness, defiance
    Han gjorde det på trass.
    He did it out of spite.

Preposition

trass

  1. despite

See also

References

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trɑsː/
    Rhymes: -ɒ́sː

Noun

trass m (definite singular trassn, definite plural trassa)

  1. packing
  2. rope
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