单词 | dunting |
释义 | duntingn.1 Scottish and Irish English. A repeated heavy beating or striking; a pounding; (also) a sound caused by this. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > heavily or severely battering1542 pounding1633 dunting1683 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > non-resonant impact sound > thud dunting1683 thuddinga1813 whumping1928 clonking1930 plonking1977 1683 Melville's Memoires 197 The dunting of Mells and Hammers. 1764 Med. Observ. & Inq. (ed. 2) II. xiii. 209 What the people here call a dunting at the heart. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Dunting, a continued beating, so as to cause a hollow sound; such as that produced by a wooden instrument, or by a stroke on wood. 1976 S. Heaney in Sewanee Rev. 84 121 I listened For duntings under the laurels. 2004 S. Blackhall Boddamers' Monkey 15 The duntin o a tractor wheel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). duntingn.2 Ceramics. With reference to ceramic material: the action of cracking as a result of being heated or cooled too rapidly, typically during the firing or cooling of a kiln. Also occasionally: a crack caused in this way. ΚΠ 1873 E. Locke in Artisans' Rep. Vienna Exhib. (Soc. for Promotion Sci. Industry) 191 The rings of the first fire are ground up again and used in a certain proportion of the clay, which, no doubt, helps to stop any dunting in the second burning. 1903 Brick Apr. 181/1 Through the gradual heating obtained by this system there is but little risk of dunting. 1910 Trans. Amer. Ceramics Soc. 12 305 You do not find many more duntings in denser or vitrified bodies than in the lighter or earthenware bodies. 1952 M. Fieldhouse Pottery xiii. 88 Cooling must not be hastened, or cracking (dunting) will occur. 2014 F. L. Wood World of Brit. Stoneware ii. 65 Prevent the ware being wasted through bloating, dunting, warping or fire-cracks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11683n.21873 |
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