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Look up: tabby

  1. Tabby
    A coat pattern consisting of two or more colours in a striped pattern.
    Found on http://www.moggies.co.uk/gloss.html

  2. tabby
    [n] - a cat with a gray or tawny coat mottled with black 2. [n] - female cat
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Tabby
    Series of IR night vision devices [UK]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  4. Tabby
    1 17thC term for silk taffeta with a changeable surface finish like shot silk. 2 A basic weave in which the warp thread is woven alternately over and under each weft thread.
    Found on http://www.antique-crafts.co.uk/glossary

  5. Tabby
    Tab'by noun ; plural Tabbies . [ French tabis (cf. Italian tabì , Spanish & Portuguese tabí , Late Latin attabi ), from Arabic 'attābī , properly the name of a quarter of Bagdad where it was made, the quarter being named from the prince Attab , great grandson of Omeyya. Confer Tobine .] 1. A kind of waved silk, ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/1

  6. Tabby
    Tab'by adjective 1. Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat. Pepys. 2. Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat. Tabby moth (Zoology) , the grease moth. See under Grease .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/1

  7. Tabby
    Tab'by transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Tabbied ; present participle & verbal noun Tabbying .] To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/1

  8. tabby
    Origin: F. Tabis (cf. It. Tabi, Sp. & Pg. Tabi, LL. Attabi), fr. Ar. 'attabi, properly the name of a quarter of Bagdad where it was made, the quarter being named from the prince Attab, great grandson of Omeyya. Cf. Tobine. ... 1. A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. tabby
    noun a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Tabby
    • (a.) Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat. • (n.) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering. • (n.) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. tabby
    type of dark-striped coat colouring found in both wild and domestic cats. One of the most common coat colours, the tabby pattern dates back to ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/1

  12. Tabby
    Tabby is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Gazelle` Where is it used? The name Tabby is mainly used In English.See also In German: Tabea In English and In the bible: Tabitha (F) In English: Tabatha From Old English. The name Tabby doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Tabby seems to be un
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Tab

  13. tabby
    1. a cat with a gray or tawny coat mottled with black
    2. female cat

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16 March 2010

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On 16 March 1978, the oil tanker the Amoco Cadiz, transporting 227,000 tonnes of crude oil, suffered a failure of her steering mechanism, and despite the efforts of the crew of a German tug boat and two unsuccessful towing attempts, ran aground on Portsall Rocks, on the Breton coast. The entire cargo spilled out as the breakers split the vessel in two, progressively polluting 360 km of shoreline from Brest to Saint Brieuc.This was the largest oil spill caused by a tanker grounding ever registered in the world. The consequences of this accident were significant, and it caused the French Government to revise its oil response plan (the Polmar Plan), to acquire equipment stocks (Polmar stocks), to impose traffic lanes in the Channel and to create Cedre. read more

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