单词 | glassing |
释义 | glassingn. The action of glass v., in various senses. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with glass > [noun] > glazing glazing1427 glassing1617 1617 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 349 The repairing, and glassin of the wyndoes, of the said kirk. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vi. ii. 182 This glassing of Divine things by Hieroglyphicks and Emblems in the Fancie. 1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (1676) A v b The Tyling, Plaistering, Lead, and Glassing. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Glassing..The operation of dressing leather on the grain side by a tool consisting of a glass slip set in a wooden handle. 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 263 Machines for rolling, pebbling, glassing or polishing. Compounds C1. General attributive. glassing effect n. ΚΠ 1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 170 Along the lower portion [of the Iceberg] where you see the glassing effects of the waves, there it resembles the rarest Sèvres vase..so exquisitely fine is the polish. C2. ΚΠ 1544 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 18 To mr. glasyer for a glassynge borde..xvjd. glassing-jack n. machine used in dressing leather. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for dressing leather flesh-board1411 stark1541 stuffing wheel1882 glassing-jacka1884 stuffing drum1897 fleshing-board- a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 404/2 Glassing Jack,..a machine in which is fitted a plate glass slicker for polishing and smoothing leather. 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 278/1 To further prepare the surface each one is held under a ‘glassing-jack’, a kind of bar or arm moving swiftly to and fro above a solid bed. glassing-machine n. = glassing-jack n. ΚΠ 1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather xxvi. 458 The glassing machine..is adapted for work on all kinds of upper leather, sheep, goat, and Morocco. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1544 |
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