单词 | scabble |
释义 | scabblev. 1. transitive. To rough-dress (stone). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > build or construct with stone [verb (transitive)] > dress stone scapple1443 dress1501 broach1544 scabble1620 scalp1725 bed1793 rough-dress1807 hammer-dress1837 scapple-dress1840 scutch1848 1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent ii. 237 As the chezill is actiue, not onely in scabling the stone, but in giuing forme to the Statue. 1624 Althorp MS. in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. lvi To Blisse one daie scabling stone for the kitchen range att the stone pitts. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §939 Stones are said to be scappled or scabbled when they are dressed with the pick end of the hammer. 1848 Acc. Quarrendon Church 7 The external walls are built with random-jointed squared ashlar, scabbled. 1852 T. Wright Celt, Roman, & Saxon v. 154 The facings of the stones in Hadrian's Wall are sometimes roughly tooled, or, as it is technically termed, scabbled with the pick. 2. Iron Manufacturing. = cabble v. ΚΠ 1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 70/2 The process..which in Gloucestershire is called ‘scabbling’ or more correctly ‘cabbling’ ..is simply breaking up this flat iron into small pieces. Men are especially allocated for this operation, and are named ‘cabblers’. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 558 Finery iron is smelted with charcoal, and when a soft mass of about two hundredweight is formed it is hammered out into a flat oval from two to four inches in thickness; this is allowed to cool, and is then broken up into small pieces, which is the process of cabbling or scabbling. Derivatives ˈscabbler n. a workman whose occupation is scabbling; a hammer used in rough-dressing stone. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with stone > [noun] > who cuts or dresses stone stone-cutter1540 stone-squarer1611 lapicide1656 scabbler1843 hearthstone maker1844 stone-dresser1858 block-chopper1883 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 171 The scabblers use heavy pointed picks. ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 86 Scabbler. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words The tool used for the purpose [sc. scabbling] is variously called a ‘scaplar’ or ‘scabbler’. ˈscabbling n. rough-dressing; concrete in plural, chips of stone; attributive in scabbling-axe, scabbling-hammer = scabbler n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > piece of stone > splinter of stone schulderec1440 spallc1440 shalder1577 shiver1600 scabbling1790 knockings1875 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Scablines, chippings of stone. North. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 537 The only preparation the stones undergo, is that of knocking off the sharp angles with the thick end of a tool called a scabling hammer. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 231 Scabblings, the chips or refuse of stone made in scabbling it. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 231 Scabble, to rough dress stone with an axe for the purpose, called a Scabbling-axe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1620 |
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