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单词 glazier's putty
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glazier's putty
a. A stiff, malleable greyish-yellow paste composed of finely powdered chalk mixed with raw linseed oil (or occasionally other ingredients), hardening after a few hours, and used esp. in fixing panes of glass, filling holes in woodwork, etc.; also glazier's putty. Also figurative.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > cement or mortar > [noun] > material resembling cement > putty
putty1706
society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [noun] > malleability > person or thing
ball of wax1835
putty1924
Silly Putty1958
1665 R. Pratt Notebk. in R. T. Gunther Archit. R. Pratt (1928) 273 They [sc. mouldings]..are to be set most closely..and upon any shrinking all is at last to be well stopped with putty.
1671 J. Brown Horologiographia viii. 165 Let the Superficies of the Glass lie just so high as the Center of the Quadrant was..and put some Putty under it.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Putty,..also a kind of Composition that Painters made use of to stop up Holes in Wood, &c.
1766 in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 298 [Church windows were] to be glazed with Crown Glass & to be put in with such Putty as will be proof against Wind & water.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 258 The nails are driven in a little below the surface of these boards, and the cavity is filled with glazier's putty.
1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 105 They must have been feeble fellows—creatures made of putty and packthread, without steel or fire, anger or true joyfulness, in their composition.
1924 H. Crane Let. 3 Feb. (1965) 173 I was quite exemplary of both sides of my family in not being made of any putty—knowing what I want to do, and sticking it out.
1933 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 5 Dec. in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 169 Then he seals up the anchor box with putty to keep the water out.
1992 Family Handyman Jan. 16/2 Thoroughly scrape and remove all the old putty and paint.
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