单词 | cabbling |
释义 | > as lemmascabbling cabbling n. Π 1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 70/2 The process..which in Gloucestershire is called ‘scabbling’ or more correctly ‘cabbling’ ..is simply breaking up this flat iron into small pieces. Men are especially allocated for this operation, and are named ‘cabblers’. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 558 Finery iron is smelted with charcoal, and when a soft mass of about two hundredweight is formed it is hammered out into a flat oval from two to four inches in thickness; this is allowed to cool, and is then broken up into small pieces, which is the process of cabbling or scabbling. < as lemmas |
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