单词 | wedger |
释义 | wedgern. A workman who wedges clay to expel air-bubbles from it. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > workers with other materials > [noun] > with clay wedger1881 puddler1884 1881 Harper's Mag. Feb. 361/2 The ‘wedger’ takes a lump of..twenty pounds, lays it on the kneading block before him, [etc.]. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §104 Wedger, clay wedger, cuts lump of clay into pieces or wedges with wire cutter, and beats one piece of clay vigorously against another to make it homogeneous and free of air bubbles, for use in manufacture of highest class ware. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1881 |
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