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▪ I. sammen|ˈsæmən| Also salmon. [Etymologizing alteration of samel.] = samel.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Sammen-bricks, bricks insufficiently burned; soft and friable. They are commonly understood to be salmon bricks, and to be so called, because..they..assume a reddish hue, supposed to be something like that of the flesh of the salmon. 1876Adams in Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Mar. 162 The arches, from necessity, are overburned in consequence of prolonging the firing sufficiently to burn the top and sides of the kiln into respectable salmon. 1889C. T. Davis Bricks (ed. 2) 47 This test applies only to hard-burned bricks, not to salmon stock. ▪ II. sammen obs. f. sam v.; var. samen, together. |