单词 | rose engine |
释义 | rose enginen. Engineering. A lathe for cutting curved or intricate patterns having a headstock or spindle housing whose motion is controlled by a patterned disc or rosette (rosette n. 4a). Also rose engine lathe. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > specific attachment rose engine1730 rose lathe1842 1730 E. Wright Some Observ. France, Italy, &c. II. 435 Father Giovanni Girolamo paints in Oil, and Water; turns with the Rose-Engine, &c. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1161 Coloured transparent glass is applied as enamel in silver and gold bijouterie, previously bright-cut in the metal with the graver or the rose-engine. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 549/1 A straight-line chuck is used in a rose-engine when the patterns are to be made to follow a straight instead of a circular direction. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 7 Jan. 5/2 The engine-turner who used the wonderful ‘rose engine’ to engrave the background. 1990 Jrnl. Writing Equipm. Soc. No. 28. 12 A further refinement of the process was the fine engraving by hand and by Bryan Donkin's ‘rose engine’ lathe. 2006 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 4 May (Suppl.) 8 The pattern is engraved by hand using a traditional rose engine. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1819 Rep. Comm. Soc. Arts on preventing Forgery of Bank Notes 46 The number of the Note might be printed on the rose-engine tablets. 1839 Law Jrnl. Rep. 8 iii. (Monthly List of Bankrupts ) 39/2 John Parkinson, of Liverpool, rose engine turner. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 168/1 Rose-engine turning. 1933 Model Engineer & Pract. Electrician 22 June 578/2 A new simplified apparatus by means of which rose-engine turning may be produced in an ordinary ornamental lathe. 1939 Times 25 Jan. 6/6 Occupations reserved... Engraver, rose engine turner, enameller. 1991 S. Landis Workshop Bk. (1998) iv. 78 (caption) Balliet..spent six years building the lathe in his basement machine shop and added the rose-engine attachment later. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1730 |
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