单词 | blunger |
释义 | blungern. An appliance for blunging; formerly ‘A long, flat, wooden instrument, with a cross handle at the top’ (Halliwell); now an apparatus driven by power. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > for beating or mixing clay blungerc1830 plunger1875 c1830 Potter's Art First we blunge (amalgamate and blend) the liquid flint And moisten'd clay..With wielded paddle-staff (a blunger call'd) Until the blended matter, all afloat, Thin slip becomes. 1879 J. J. Young Ceramic Art 67 The ingredients are mixed in a ‘blunger’. 1883 Binns Guide Worcester Porcelain Wks. 17 Several vats, containing blungers, which are worked by machinery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.c1830 |
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