单词 | gold hammer |
释义 | † gold hammern.2 Obsolete. A gold-beater's hammer. Cf. finishing-hammer n. at finishing n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1763 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum ii. 48 The gold hammer, or finishing hammer, weighs ten or eleven pounds. 1847 Encycl. Americana (new ed.) 549/1 The 2400 leaves hence resulting are parted into three packets.., and beaten with the finishing, or gold hammer. 1904 Encycl. Americana VIII. at Gold-beating Each mold is beaten with the ‘finishing’ or gold hammer, weighing from 7 to 10 pounds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018). < n.21763 |
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