| 单词 | moon-knife | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoon-knife   moon-knife  n. now historical and rare a crescent-shaped knife used by leather-workers. ΚΠ 1876    Ladies' Repository Apr. 372/2  				Vellum is made from the skins of very young calves..by a process of liming to remove the hair and fatty substances, then carefully stretched on a frame, and, with an instrument called a moon knife, scraped on both sides. 1882    J. Paton in  Encycl. Brit. XIV. 389/2  				The dyed leather is..grounded with a curious moon knife. 1909    H. G. Bennett Manuf. Leather 359  				In perching the mechanical treatment is less violent, the goods being..scraped by means of the ‘moon-knife’. 1978    Pennsylvania Archaeol. Sept. 30/1  				A moon-knife was used to soften animal skins by breaking down fibers. < as lemmas  | 
	
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