Usually means: Pattern of V-shaped zigzags.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word herringbone:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. herringbone: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. herringbone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. herringbone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. herringbone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. herringbone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Herringbone, herringbone: Wordnik
  7. herringbone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. herringbone: Wiktionary
  9. herringbone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. herringbone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. herringbone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Herringbone, herringbone: Dictionary.com
  13. Herringbone (cloth), Herringbone (formation), Herringbone (horse), Herringbone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Herringbone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. herringbone: Rhymezone
  16. Herringbone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. herringbone: Free Dictionary
  18. herringbone: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. herringbone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. herringbone: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. herringbone: mosaic glossary
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Herringbone: Corporate Apparel Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. herringbone: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Herringbone: Castle Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Herringbone: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Herringbone: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  2. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See herringboned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A bone of a herring.
noun:  A zigzag pattern, especially made by bricks, on a cloth, or by stitches in sewing.
noun:  (countable, skiing) A method of climbing a hill by pointing the skis outward in a V-shape to keep from sliding backwards.
noun:  Twilled fabric woven in rows of parallel sloping lines.
verb:  To stitch in a herringbone pattern.
verb:  (skiing) To climb a hill by pointing the skis outward in a V-shape to keep from sliding backwards.

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