单词 | flattener |
释义 | flattenern. One who flattens; something used for flattening. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who smooths, polishes, or flattens polisher1552 rubber1611 flatter1714 flattener1741 French-polisher1825 planisher1858 society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > flattening roll1410 rolling stone1611 planisher1858 flatter1874 flattener1875 1741 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 4) Flatter or Flattener. See Coining. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. vi. 329 There had followed a dryness between the divine Emilie and the Flattener of the Earth [i.e. Maupertuis, from his having proved the flattening of the earth at the poles]. 1875 Plain Needle-work 14 An old tooth brush handle, which..might be called the ‘flattener’. 1879 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. X. 661/2 The flattener, with a piece of charred wood, rubs it [the opened cylinder of glass] quite smooth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1741 |
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