| 单词 | blow-up cistern |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblow-up cistern 2. Sugar Manufacturing. The place where the raw sugar is dissolved; also attributive, as blow-up cistern, blow-up pan, a vessel used in dissolving raw sugar by ‘blowing’ or forcing steam through it. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > vat for dissolving raw sugar blow-up1833 1833 B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 77 The vats, or blow-ups, as they are called, containing the sugar,..are heated by steam tubes passing through them. 1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. 108 A steam-pipe, in communication with a boiler, is enclosed within the ‘blow-up cistern’ [for dissolving sugar]; and..steam is forced or ‘blown’ by its own pressure into the solution. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Blow-up Pan. (Sugar-Machinery.) 1886 Harper's Mag. June 82/2 These ‘mixers’ or ‘blow-ups’ are really great stew-pans set in the ground. 1935 Discovery Dec. 363/2 The resultant mixture..becomes a syrup known as ‘blow-up thick juice’. < as lemmas |
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