单词 | finger steel |
释义 | > as lemmasfinger steel finger steel n. now historical a small sharpening steel (steel n.1 8b) held between the fingers by a currier to sharpen the blades used in scraping hides. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > steel steel1541 finger steel1878 1878 Ann. Rep. Chief of Ordnance to Secretary of War (U.S. Army Ordnance Dept.) 85 This instrument has almost the same form and dimensions as the buffing-slicker.., but instead of a re-entrant angle along the edge, it has a very narrow rectangular one, whose angles are kept sharp by the finger-steel. 1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 334/2 Finger-steel, a steel instrument like a skewer or awl, used for restoring the edge of the currier's knife while in use. 1964 E. Sloane Museum Early Amer. Tools (2002) 94 This delicate edge needed constant turning with a ‘turning steel’ and with a ‘finger steel’, which was kept handy between two fingers. < as lemmas |
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