off-bearingadj.
/ˈɒfbɛːrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɔfˌbɛrɪŋ/, /ˈɑfˌbɛrɪŋ/ That bears something off; spec. that carries off a product (as wood, bricks, etc.) from a machine or process.
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1863 Sci. Amer. 24 Oct. 269/3 Driving the off-bearing apron..at a greater speed than that of the bar of clay, for the purpose of separating the brick by a sufficient interval.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. The track carrying the pallets, which support the newly molded bricks, and on which they are slipped to the off-bearing boy..at the end.
1993 Wood Technol. (Nexis) Nov. 19 Top speed [of the machines in a veneer mill] is around 80 cuts/min, but that is too fast for the offbearing crew and hard on the machinery.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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