| 释义 |
soft-solder, v.
Also soft-sodder.
[f. soft solder: see solder n.1 4.]
1. trans. To unite, mend, etc., with soft solder. Hence soft-soldered ppl. a.
1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 433 Copper, brass and iron are soft-soldered. Ibid. 444 It is very essential that all soft-soldered joints should be particularly clean. 1900Hasluck Model Eng. Handybk. 122 The flue and both ends of the boiler should be brazed in their places, not soft-soldered.
2. = soft-sawder, s.v. sawder v. Cf. solder n.1 4 b. U.S. colloq.
1866C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so called: Side Show of Southern Side of War 159 Wouldn't you think that as a matter of policy they would soft sodder us a little and quit their slanderin? 1905J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide vi. 111 He soft-soddered me till I felt slippery all over. |