单词 | sammen |
释义 | sammenadj. = samel adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > [adjective] > imperfectly or insufficiently samel1601 sammena1825 underburnt1844 under-fired- a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Sammen-bricks, bricks insufficiently burned; soft and friable. They are commonly understood to be salmon bricks, and to be so called, because..they..assume a reddish hue, supposed to be something like that of the flesh of the salmon. 1876 Adams in Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Mar. 162 The arches, from necessity, are overburned in consequence of prolonging the firing sufficiently to burn the top and sides of the kiln into respectable salmon. 1889 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks (ed. 2) 47 This test applies only to hard-burned bricks, not to salmon stock. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.a1825 |
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