| 单词 | balling-machine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasballing-machine C2. In the names of devices used for or involved in balling (see sense 2), as balling-furnace, balling-machine, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > into ball > machine for balling-machine1822 baller1884 1822 R. S. Harford Brit. Patent 4663 (1856) 2 My improvement..in the manufacture of..iron..consists entirely in covering the cast-iron bottoms of balling, heating, or annealing furnaces with charcoal. 1840 D. Mushet Papers Iron & Steel i. 14 The flue cinder of the balling furnace..on an average contains 30 per cent. of silica. 1869 Eng. Mech. 31 Dec. 387/2 Engravings of a ½ lb. and 1 lb. balling machine. 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 117 As this balling head moves from side to side quickly, the ball is made by the sliver constantly passing from side to side. 1956 Science 8 June 1025/3 It is necessary to form the powdered iron ore into ½- to ¾-inch pellets in a balling drum. 1994 Technol. & Culture 35 108 The balling furnaces (in which coal, limestone, and saltcake reacted to form crude sodium carbonate as ‘black ash balls’). < as lemmas |
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