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soap-boiling, vbl. n.
[soap n.]
The business, occupation, or process of boiling soap.
1634in Rymer Fœdera (1732) XIX. 507 The said Trade of Soap-making or Soap-boiling. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1733) II. 152 Soap-boiling, grain-dying, and other trades and mysteries. 1780Phil. Trans. LXX. 351 Perhaps the addition of this caustic substance would increase its..value, when employed in soap-boiling and other arts. 1834–6Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 435/1 The first portion..is of course the strongest, and is reserved for the last operation of soap-boiling. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 203/1 The process of soap-boiling is carried out in large iron boilers.
attrib.1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 827/1 The interior of a soap boiling kettle. |