单词 | red-sear |
释义 | red-searn.adj. Founding. A. n. A defect of iron in which it becomes brittle when red-hot, typically due to an excess of sulphur in the metal; = red-shortness n. at red-short n. and adj. Derivatives. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > brittleness of red-sear1688 hot-shortness1840 red-shortness1848 cold-shortness1887 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 88/2 Red Sear, is when Iron is too hot, that it breaks or cracks under the Hammer in working between hot and cold. 1854 Mining Mag. 3 226 The pig-iron subsequently produced from that ore yielded an excellent bar-iron without the slightest trace of red-sear. 1896 J. S. Gardner tr. F. S. Meyer Handbk. Art Smithing ii. 11 The most salient faults in malleable-iron are..defective edges (produced in rolling), veins (spots of unequal hardness), cold-short-iron and red-sear (due to too much silicon, phosphorus and sulphur). 1971 W. K. V. Gale Iron & Steel Industry: Dict. Terms 167 Red short, a fault in wrought iron caused by excess of sulphur... Also called, less commonly, red sear. = red-short adj. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [adjective] > brittle redshire1590 cold-short1601 red-short1773 hot short1788 red-sear1798 1798 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. v. 867 Red-short or Red-sear iron. Malleable when cold, but brittle when red-hot. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 334/2 Red-sear Iron, a defect in iron which causes it to become brittle when heated, and to break when forged. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † red-searv. Founding. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. Of iron: to become brittle when red-hot. Cf. red-sear n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > actions of iron [verb (intransitive)] > become brittle when worked red-sear1678 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 8 If it be too hot it will Red-sear, that is, break or crack under the Hammer while it is working between Hot and Cold. 1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II. at Red-seer When a Piece of Iron in a Smith's fire of his Forge is heated too much, it will Red-seer, as they call it. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Iron If the Iron be made too hot, it will red-sear, i.e. break or crackle under the Hammer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.1688v.1678 |
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