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▪ I. skintle, a. and n.|ˈskɪnt(ə)l|
[? f. skintle v.]
(See quots.)
1889C. T. Davis Bricks, Tiles, etc. (ed. 2) 135 The straight courses, pillar, hangers, and skintle bricks. Ibid. 136 The ‘skintles’ are the bricks set diagonally in order to tie the over-hangers together.
▪ II. skintle, v.|ˈskɪnt(ə)l|
Also scintle.
[perh. for squintle, f. squint a.]
trans. To separate and reset (half-dried bricks) at angles to each other, so as to complete the drying.
1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 280/2 When half dry the bricks are separated somewhat (scintled), to allow free access of the air. 1904A. Griffiths Fifty Yrs. Public Serv. 236 They dried slowly, and were regularly ‘skintled’, or rearranged so that the air might get all round them.
So ˈskintling vbl. n.; also as adv.
1836Penny Cycl. V. 408/2 After the bricks are partially dried, another operation takes place, called ‘skintling’. 1841Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 341/1 note, When the bricks have stood a few days, they are reset with a greater space between them, which operation is called scintling. 1889Science XIII. 335/2 When dry, they [the bricks]..are carried in wheel-barrows and set ‘skintling’, or at angles across each other. |