单词 | hammer-dress |
释义 | > as lemmashammer-dress hammer-dress v. transitive to dress (stone) by strokes of a hammer. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > build or construct with stone [verb (transitive)] > dress stone scapple1443 dress1501 broach1544 scabble1620 scalp1725 bed1793 rough-dress1807 hammer-dress1837 scapple-dress1840 scutch1848 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 191 There are four viaducts of hammer-dressed sandstone. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 272 He hammer-dressed his stones with fewer strokes than other workmen. 1939 J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete iii. 98 The stones are invariably hammer-dressed, the saw not yet being used for masonry. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 401/1 Hammer-dressed, a term applied to stone surfaces left with a rough finish produced by the hammer. < as lemmas |
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