单词 | crusting |
释义 | crustingn. 1. The action of crust v.; formation of a crust; concrete a crust formed, an incrustation. ΚΠ 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lix. 273 Paaste in an ouen..receyueth a maner croustyng in the vtter syde vnder the whiche crouste the paaste is nesshe. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 548 The..department in this factitious wine trade, called crusting, consists in lining the interior surface of empty wine-bottles..with a red crust of super-tartarate of potash. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxx. 261 Put out your tongue, and it instantly freezes to this icy crusting. 2. U.S. = crust-hunting n. at crust-hunt v. Derivatives. ΚΠ 1839 C. F. Hoffman Wild Scenes I. xviii. 92 ‘Crusting’ is the term applied to taking large game amid the deep snows of winter, when the crust of ice which forms upon the surface after a slight rain is enough to support the weight of a man, but gives way at once to the hoofs of a moose or a deer. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 207 Deer are taken extensively by a process called ‘crusting’; that is, pursuing them, after a night's rain followed by frost has formed a crusty ice upon the surface of the deep snow. 1888 Forest & Stream XXX. 165/1 A crust sufficiently strong for moose and deer crusting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). crustingadj. That crusts or forms a crust; encrusting. ΚΠ 1867 J. Ingelow Story of Doom iii. 72 A coverlet made stiff with crusting gems. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1398adj.1867 |
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