单词 | moellon |
释义 | moellonn.1 Building. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. Rubble or irregular blocks of stone used as infill in building. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > small or undressed stones for filling in pinning1534 rubble1542 rubble work1675 rubble stone1833 hearting1837 spalled rubble1839 hardcore1842 scruff-stone1869 moellon1875 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Moillonneux, full of rubbish, made of ruble; also, fill of the soft stone Moilon. 1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) 303 Rag-stone, or Rag-Work, Fr. Möellon. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Moellon (French), rough stones fit for building.] 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1458/2 Moellon, rubble stone filled in between the facing walls of a structure, or between the spandrels of a bridge. It consists of clean, broken stone, and where it holds an important position, as in the latter-mentioned case, it is laid in mortar, and by hardening becomes equal to a solid mass of stone. 1929 Speculum 4 291 The fabric of the transept [of the abbey church at Cluny] is of limestone, partly squared and sculptured blocks, partly moellon (small trimmed stone), partly rubble. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). moellonn.2 Tanning. A dark wax or grease used in curing leather; = degras n. 1. Also moellon degras. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > leather-making materials > [noun] > other leather-making materials sabrasc1480 stuff1812 pure1842 bran-drench1883 moellon1897 sig1897 plumper1903 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 227 French moellon oil, strictly speaking, is an expressed oil from chamois tannage, French degras being a mixture of moellon and oil obtained from washing the skins in an alkaline solution. 1922 H. R. Procter Princ. Leather Manuf. (ed. 2) xxv. 448 The residual oil..constitutes moellon... Mixed with further quantities of fish oils, tallows, and sometimes wool-fat, it constitutes the ordinary dégras of commerce. 1931 J. A. Wilson & H. B. Merrill Anal. Leather xi. 382 The excess oil is pressed out after saturating the skins with water and constitutes the purest and best grade of moellon dégras. 1939 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) III. 552 (heading) Analysis of moëllon-dégras. 1969 T. C. Thorstensen Pract. Leather Technol. xii. 202 Natural moellon is produced by the oxidation of raw cod liver oil in the tanning of sheep and goat chamois skins. Synthetic moellon is produced by the controlled aeration of raw cod liver oil to the desired oxidation fatty acid value; it results in more hydrophilic properties. 1983 J. H. Sharphouse Leather Technician's Handbk. (rev. ed.) xxi. 216 This oxidised oil..is known as Degras or Moellon and is a marketable by-product, having uses in fatliquoring, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11875n.21897 |
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