单词 | mill-cake |
释义 | > as lemmasmill-cake mill-cake n. (a) the mass resulting from mixing the ingredients in the process of manufacture of gunpowder; (b) linseed cake (rare). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > explosive for use with firearms > in specific form or state corn-powder1562 train1587 meal-powder1782 green charge1825 gunpowder cake1839 mill-cake1839 presscake1839 pellet powder1868 prismatic powder1869 pebble powder1870 pebble1872 prismatic1894 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 629 The mill-cake powder of Waltham Abbey is submitted to a mean theoretic pressure of 70 to 75 tons per superficial foot. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1440/2 Mill-cake,..the mass of hulls and parenchyma remaining after the expression of linseed-oil. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2004/1 Runner-ball, (Gunpowder) a wooden disk which crushes the mill-cake through the meshes of the sieves in granulating gunpowder. 1998 G. I. Brown Big Bang ii. 21 The resulting hard mass, called mill-cake or press-cake, could be compacted even further between plates in a hydraulic press, and cake of different densities could be made by altering the duration and intensity of the milling. < as lemmas |
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