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† ˈtaplin, tapling Obs.
(See quots.)
1748Brownrigg Making Salt ii. ii. §1. 54 The pan..is placed over the furnace, being supported at the four corners by brick work; but along the middle, and at the sides and ends, by round pillars of cast iron called taplins, which are placed at three feet distance from each other, being about eight inches high, and at the top, where smallest, four inches in diameter. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Taplings, in the English salt-works, the name given to certain bars of iron which support the bottom of the pan in which the brine is boiled. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 626/2 [as in quot. 1748]. |