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▪ I. ‖ cuvette n.1|kyˈvɛt|
[Fr., dim. of cuve (see above); applied to various basins: the use in Fortification shows some confusion (perhaps graphic) with cunette.]
1. Fortif. = cunette.
1678tr. Gaya's Art of War ii. 115 Cuvette, a little Ditch made in the middle of the great Foss. 1704in Harris Lex. Tech. 1706in Phillips. 1721in Bailey. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xxiv, Trim's foot getting into the cuvette, he tumbled full against the bridge too.
2. An ornamental shallow dish or basin for holding water, etc.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Cuvet, (Fr.) a kind of Dish of an Oval Form. Cuvette, a Cistern for a Dining-room. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Oils, Putting the Cuvets on a Silver Dish, with a Silver Ladle therein, with which every one of the Guests may take out some Soop, when the Oil is set on the Table. 1887tr. Sachs' Lect. Physiol. Plants 305 Glass vessels with parallel walls, and as large as possible (so called Cuvettes), were filled with the solutions, and fixed something like windows.
3. Glass-making. A large clay basin or crucible used in making plate glass (see quot. 1875).
1832G. R. Porter Porcelain & Gl. 199 The other crucibles, which are smaller, are called cuvettes. 1875Ure Dict. Arts II. 662 The cuvettes receive the melted glass..and decant it out on the table to be rolled into a plate.
4. Geol. (See quot. 1929.)
1907Daily Chron. 28 Oct. 3/3 The sand dunes and cuvettes round Lake Chad. 1910Encycl. Brit. X. 598/1 There are ‘short-synclines’, ‘brachysynclinaux’ or ‘cuvettes’. 1929L. J. Wills Physiogr. Evol. Britain ii. vi. 79 Cuvette is a convenient term for a basin in which sedimentation is going on..as distinct from a tectonic basin due to folding of pre-existing rocks.
▪ II. [cuvette, n.2
A spoon-like instrument used in extracting a cataract. Error for curette. 1849 in Craig; hence in some later Dicts.] |