英语词汇“sham-damn”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	sham-damn
释义	ˈsham-ˈdamn, a. [f. sham n.¹ + damn v.] The distinctive epithet of an inferior kind of scrap-iron, used for making gun-barrels. Hence of firearms: Of wretched quality, ‘shoddy’. 1846Greener Sci. Gunnery 197 Sham damn iron is similar in nature to brass, a metal with fibres certainly, but they are like the fibres of willow compared to oak... All slave gun-barrels are made of it.1851–4Tomlinson's Cycl. Usef. Arts (1866) I. 818/1 These [pieces of scrap-iron] are sorted and used in preparing iron of various qualities, known as wire-twist,..twopenny, or Wednesbury-skelp, sham-damn-skelp.1895Outing XXVII. 63/2 A cheap, sham-dam arm should not be given to a boy, for it may prove his executioner.
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