单词 | lasting pincers |
释义 | > as lemmaslasting pincers General attributive in the sense ‘used in the process of lasting’, as lasting jack, lasting machine, lasting pincers, etc. ΚΠ 1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 92 My Lasts..and my lasting Sticks. 1846 S. Hart U.S. Patent 4587 (title) Lasting Machine. 1857 Sci. Amer. 24 Oct. 50/3 Lasting Pincers—B. F. Sturtevant, of Skowhegan, Me., (assignor to Elmer Townsend, of Boston, Mass.): I claim the described compound pincers for lasting boots. 1868 U.S. Patent 69,395 in Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1867 I. 46 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 96) X Lasting awl. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1258/2 Lasting-jack, an implement to hold the last while straining and securing the upper thereon. 1895 Daily News 13 Mar. 3/2 A magnetic lasting machine which takes up the tacks and presses them into a boot when it is on the last. 1941 S. H. Slichter Union Policies & Industr. Managem. vii. 210 The old Lasters' Protective Union attempted to keep out the lasting machine by striking against its use. 1965 E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen iv. 107/2 With his last upside down on the lasting jack, the shoemaker stretched the upper over it with special pincers. 2002 Voice 4 Nov. 12/3 Matzeliger's lasting machine produced shoes faster than the hands of skilled shoe craftsmen. 2003 J. Swann Shoemaking 19/2 (caption) A pulling-over machine in the factory of J. Sears and Company, Northampton, between 1903 and 1913. It replaced the lasting pincers. < as lemmas |
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