| 释义 |
blunge, v. Pottery.|blʌndʒ|
[app. onomatopœic: with a feeling for plunge, and perhaps for blend, bludgeon, blow, or other bl- words.]
trans. To mix (clay, powdered flint, etc.) up with water. Hence ˈblunging vbl. n.
c1830Potter's Art, First we blunge (amalgamate and blend) the liquid flint And moisten'd clay..With wielded paddle-staff (a blunger call'd) Until the blended matter, all afloat, Thin slip becomes. 1832G. Porter Porcelain 36 The mixing of the clay, which is called blunging, is effected in a trough. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. xii. 346 For pottery..the clay is what is termed ‘blunged’—that is—beaten up in tanks of water by means of powerful revolving arms or cutters. |