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单词 samel
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sameladj.

/ˈsaməl/
Forms: Also 1600s sammell, semeld, 1600s–1700s sammel; (1700s sandal, sandel). See also sammen adj.
Etymology: Of obscure origin; possibly representing an Old English *samǽled half-burnt, < sam- prefix + past participle of ǽlan to burn.
Of a brick or tile: Imperfectly burnt.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > [adjective] > imperfectly or insufficiently
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. x. 565 A fragment or peece of a broken semeld brick.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 26 To suffer no Sammell Bricks to be made use of.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 28 See the Brick-layers take good sollid Bricks to hue, since if any thing Sammel the work will molder away.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 48 He had burnt several Kilns of Tiles and..not had above 50 waste, broken, and Sandal Tiles in all.
1716 London Gaz. No. 5446/8 All that are samel, or under burnt, to be excluded.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. iii. 41 The brickmaker's men..turn'd their hands from the grey hard well-burnt bricks to the soft sammell half-burnt bricks.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Brick Samel, or Sandal Bricks, are such as lie outmost in a Kiln or Clamp, and consequently are soft and useless; as not being thoroughly burnt.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 443/2 The outside bricks are necessarily under-burned. These are called samel bricks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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