| 单词 | perching machine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasperching machine 2. Tanning. The process of softening leather while it is fixed to a perch. Cf. perch n.1 7b. Also attributive, as perching room, perching machine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > [noun] > softening hides perching1897 mulling1931 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 361 There are..above the perching room.., two large logwood tanks. 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 362 12 Slocomb perching machines. These perching machines take the place of hand work. 1903 H. R. Procter Princ. Leather Manuf. 188 ‘Perching’..[consists] in fixing the skins on a horizontal pole (the ‘perch’), and working them with..a tool formed somewhat like a small shovel with a semicircular blade. 1963 J. H. Sharphouse Leatherworker's Handbk. xxvi. 157 Perching is a variation of this action [sc. hand staking]. < as lemmas |
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