单词 | off-bear |
释义 | off-bearv. transitive. To bear (something) off; spec. to carry (newly moulded bricks) away from the moulding machine or table; to carry (wood, etc.) away from a saw or machine. Also intransitive with passive meaning. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > brick and tile making > make bricks and tiles [verb (transitive)] > specific processes strike1683 shinlog1703 deliver1809 hack1813 underburn1841 malm1850 off-bear1856 skintle1876 kelly1884 1856 K. E. R. Pickard Kidnapped & Ransomed (ed. 3) ii. 35 Three thousand brick a day was the task for two boys; and if one of them chanced to be by any means disabled, his companion must ‘off-bear’ the whole. 1884 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks 18 Others still are off-bearing [ed. 1889 bearing off] the bricks. 1989 Forest Industries (Nexis) Mar. 29 Large timbers and 12x12s can offbear directly from the headrig, bypassing the rest of the mill. 1994 Wood Technol. (Nexis) July 20 A belt conveyor offbears the full-length ripped material to crossfeed chains. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1856 |
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