papermakingn.adj.
/ˈpeɪpəˌmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpeɪpərˌmeɪkɪŋ/ A. n.
The process or practice of making paper.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > paper-making > [noun]
papermaking1594
papercraft1853
1594 in Bk. Old Edinb. Club XXV. 57 Partineris of the work of the said paper making.
1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 974 As to their [sc. the Chinese] Ingenuities and Arts,..the Loadstone and Compass hath been in use among them above 1100 years, and Paper-and Ink-making, above 180 years, both before Christ.
1709 C. Morris Diary 28 July (1934) 54 Went out with my Neece Leigh, afterwards to Dulcote, to shew her Papermaking.
1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg II. xii. 102 The Chinese..are excellent..paper-makers. In the article of paper-making they excel even the Europeans.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 20 The art of paper-making not being introduced into England before the reign of Henry VII.
1887 in C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 195 We think the West African Colonies specially adapted to the supply of paper-making basts.
1973 Materials & Technol. VI. ii. 139 Papermaking is a continuous process, conveniently divided into five main parts.
1997 New Scientist 29 Nov. 15/3 Lignin, a waste product from papermaking, can replace between a third and a half of the epoxy resin used to make printed circuit boards.
B. adj. (attributive).
1. That makes paper.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > paper-making > [adjective]
papermaking1844
1844 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Aug. 74/2 There are many products of industry; iron turning-lathes, planing machines,..printing and paper-making machines, [etc.].
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 848/2 A cylindrical wire-cloth sieve in the paper-making machine, which allows the finely ground stuff to pass.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 51/1 There are a number of paper-making establishments, most of them on the Don near Aberdeen.
1992 Independent 30 Jan. 25/8 Norman Peters was born into a papermaking family and was apprenticed at Hayle Mill at the age of 14.
2. papermaking wasp n. = paper wasp n. at paper n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > member of
hymenopter1828
fossor1832
hymenopteran1842
papermaking wasp1862
fossorial Hymenoptera1880
1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) i. 15 Even the proverbially irritable paper-making wasps and hornets (Polistes and Vespa) are not without their use in the economy of nature.
1913 Science 24 Jan. 157/1 Dr. C. H. Turner..gave a short talk on ‘The History of an Orphan Colony of a Paper-making Wasp’.
1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xii. 194 In addition to the honeybees, the ants, bumblebees, and paper-making wasps also belong to the social hymenoptera.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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