单词 | reaming |
释义 | reamingn. 1. Originally: the action or process of opening a seam in a ship to facilitate caulking. Later: the action of enlarging or widening a hole using an instrument. Also: the action of clearing out an obstruction or excess material from something.Recorded earliest in compounds. ΚΠ 1669 H. Brayne Inventorie Shipp Carolina 17 Aug. in L. Cheves Shaftesbury Papers (2000) 140 Carpenters Stores... Two double Hookes three Reaming Bolts two Iron Wedges. 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 130 Reeming Irons, are used by the Caulkers for opening the Seams of the Planks of Ships on the Stocks before caulked. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 152 Reaming, Encreasing the size of a hole by a larger instrument. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Reaming, in block-making, the act of increasing the size of a hole with a large instrument. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Reeming, in shipbuilding, opening the seams of the planks with iron wedges, called reeming-irons, in order that the oakum used in caulking may be more readily admitted. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1905/2 The tool is a reeming-iron struck by a reeming-beetle. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 156 The lead that remains in the groove must be extracted—this is called reaming. 1976 Nature 26 Aug. 769/2 Four major processes may be invoked to explain the fragmentation of the basalt: (4) Shaving or reaming out of the hole by the drill bit during re-entry or fragmentation by drilling. 1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) xxi. 600 Reaming is done for two purposes—to bring holes to a more exact size, and to improve the finish of an existing hole by machining a small amount from its surface. 2. North American. Cookery. The extraction of juice from citrus fruit using a reamer. Cf. reamer n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing fruit and vegetables > [noun] > extracting juice vegetable juice1651 reaming1936 1936 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. l23/7 His explanation of ‘squeezing’ versus ‘reaming’..promised in the minds of some observers to provide a future controversy. 1954 D. K. Tressler & M. A. Joslyn Chem. & Technol. Fruit & Fruit Products xii. 427 In the early days of orange juice canning, juice was extracted by hand reaming. 2006 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 24 Apr. d1 Reaming can be done with a hand-held reamer. 3. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A severe reprimand. Cf. ream v.4 7. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of admonishingc1350 reproofc1400 fliting1435 rebuke?a1439 snibc1450 reprehensiona1500 redargution1514 remorda1529 piece of one's mind1536 check1541 snuba1556 rebuking1561 boba1566 sneap1600 snipping1601 reprimand1636 repriment1652 rubber1699 slap1736 twinkation1748 rap1777 throughgoing1817 dressing-down1823 downset1824 hazing1829 snubbing1841 downsetting1842 raking1852 calling1855 talking toc1875 rousting1900 strafe1915 strafing1915 raspberry1919 rousing1923 bottle1938 reaming1944 ticking-off1950 serve1967 1944 J. W. Winfrey in M. C. Boatright & D. Day From Hell to Breakfast 139 If this man is really a trouble maker, he may get ‘run off’ (fired). He might just get..a ‘reaming’ from his boss. 1976 ‘J. Charlton’ Remington Set xxiii. 119 You're bloody cheerful..for a bloke that's headed for a number one reaming from the CO. 2007 M. Candela Underneath it All lxxix. 168 She..hunted me down and now is going to give me a reaming over the phone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † reamingadj.1 Obsolete. rare. Stretching out in threads; forming masses of filaments. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [adjective] > like a thread reaminga1398 threadish1578 thready1597 filamentous1682 fibrous1707 filiform1758 thread-like1774 fibry1802 filiformed1851 tendrilous1857 fibrine1881 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxii. 211 Moche grete spotel and þicke, gleymy and remynge. 1647 R. Herrick Widdowes Teares in Noble Numbers 44 Farewell the Flax and Reaming wooll, With which thy house was plentifull. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2018). reamingadj.2 Chiefly Scottish. Frothing, foaming. Also reaming full: full to overflowing. ΚΠ 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. xi. 89 He merely ressauis the remand tais, All out he drank. 1599 A. Hume Poems (1902) 30 Sume likes the reamand London beare, The bodie to refresh. 1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 196 With reaming quaff. 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 100 Come and gies the tither blaw Of reaming ale. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. ii. 43 It's a sore thing to see a..cow kick down the pail when it's reaming fou. 1842 J. Aiton Clerical Econ. iv. 163 They give a reaming handiful of rich milk. 1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet 23 The reaming white which filled the blanket tub. 1928 Irish Breeder 18 An ugly-shaped beast is still a gid coo If she fills nine quarts reamin' foo tae the broo. 1996 S. Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 3 Auld Bunty Strachan hirplin up an doon stairs frae her mither's bedroom wi a reemin chunty in her hauns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1669adj.1a1398adj.21513 |
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