| 单词 | perching room |
| 释义 | > as lemmasperching room 1. The examination of cloth for defects. Cf. perch n.1 7a, perch v.1 7a. Also attributive, as perching room. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > examining cloth for faults > place for perching room1889 1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 22 Certen Milles called Gigge Milles, for the perchinge and burlinge of Clothe, by reason whereof the true Draperie of this realme ys wonderfully empayred. 1876 W. Cudworth Round about Bradford 356 After cloth is woven there is still much to be done..it still requiring..‘fettling’, and ‘perching’..to rectify any mistakes in weaving. 1889 Women's Union Jrnl. 15 Nov. 87 Having their work carried to the perching room. 1944 Econ. Hist. Rev. 14 46 We read elsewhere of cloth being ‘drawn on the perch’ and the process itself is sometimes called ‘perching’. perching room 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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