A kind of cement made by mixing pitch or lime with wax, fat, or sand, and other ingredients. Obsolete.
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| 释义 | society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > cement or mortar > [noun] > other kinds of cement or mortar (28) maltha?1440 A kind of cement made by mixing pitch or lime with wax, fat, or sand, and other ingredients. Obsolete. testacyec1440 Name for a kind of cement. putty1472 A fine mortar or cement made of lime and water without sand, used in pointing brickwork, etc. Also plasterer's putty. tarras1612 A kind of rock, allied in composition to pozzolana, consisting largely of comminuted pumice or other volcanic substance; it is found along the… natural cement1753 a naturally occurring cement; spec. one made by calcining argillaceous limestone. Roman cement1768 Hydraulic cement used by the Romans, made from pozzolana. Cf. hydraulic cement at hydraulic, adj. 3, pozzolana cement n. at pozzolana, n. compounds. sand mortar1775 (see quot. 1775). Roman cement1800 Any of various fast-setting hydraulic cements made by the addition of chalky or clayey matter to water and lime or sand. Cf. Parker's cement, n. Parker's cement1811 = Roman cement, n. mastic cement1815 a kind of cement used for plastering walls, usually composed of powdered limestone, sand, and litharge, mixed with linseed oil. gauge-stuff1823 (see quots.). Portland cement1824 a hydraulic cement manufactured from limestone and clay or sand, commonly used in concrete and resembling Portland stone in colour. putty cement1825 = sense 1. rust cement1830 an iron-rich binding cement for joints, which oxidizes in reaction with the air and increases in volume, thus filling and sealing any voids and… matrix1838 A fine material used to bind together the coarser particles of a composite (usually artificial) substance; (Building) lime or fine cement. terro-cement1838 Probably: a cement containing chalk or clay. Cf. Roman cement, n. rust1839 Building and Engineering. = rust cement n. at compounds 2. Now chiefly historical. swish1863 A native mortar of West Africa. Also attributive. Coaguline1868 Trade name of a kind of cement. albolith1870 A type of white cement made from magnesium carbonate, used chiefly to repair damaged stone surfaces and to imitate wooden mouldings. dagga1878 A kind of mortar made of mud and cow-dung, often mixed with ox-blood. Hence as v., to smear with dagga. mastic1881 In extended use. Originally: a kind of resinous or bituminous cement (cf. mastic cement n. at compounds 2). In later use: any of various… tripolith1882 trade name for a kind of cement: see quot. grappier1897 One of the hard lumps of unslaked material sometimes left in hydraulic lime after it has been slaked; grappier cement n. cement made by grinding… pozzolana cement1905 a cement made from natural or artificial pozzolana, lime, and water. Ciment Fondu1924 Proprietary name of a rapidly hardening high-alumina cement made by fusing or sintering lime or other calcareous material and alumina or bauxite and… snowcrete1928 A type of white cement that is resistant to discoloration. soil-cement1936 and (also without hyphen) n., (material) composed of soil or a soil substitute that has been strengthened and stabilized by the admixture of cement. |
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