The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word BUCKRAM
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More clues leading to the result BUCKRAM
- Two beastly males providing stiff fabric
- What’s used to bind dollar to pound
- Material obtained from dollar sign
- Dollar horny male laid out for coarse material
- Deer and sheep bound for cover
- fabric
- Two males producing cloth
- Sign inexperienced journalist’s written up coarse material
- Storage under a dollar for firm material
- Stiff material to resist something battering
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The straight part
We know that "cover" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cover = buckram.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does BUCKRAM mean?
BUCKRAM noun- A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
- To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
- A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.