[ˈeɪpr(ə)n], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a protective garment worn over the front of one's clothes and tied at the back
(e.g: a striped butcher's apron)

- a small area adjacent to another larger area or structure
(e.g: a tiny apron of garden)

- an endless conveyor made of overlapping plates
(e.g: apron feeders bring coarse ore to a grinding mill)


Phrases:
- tied to someone's apron strings

Origin:
Middle English naperon, from Old French, diminutive of nape, nappe ‘tablecloth’, from Latin mappa ‘napkin’. The n was lost by wrong division of a napron; compare with adder