单词 | pegging machine |
释义 | > as lemmaspegging machine pegging machine n. Shoemaking (now historical) a machine for pegging shoes. ΚΠ 1861 Dawson's Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Times 6 Mar. 1/4 One of the greatest curiosities is the pegging machine, which inserts the awl, cuts out the pegs from a strip of wood, and drives them in, all at one operation, and so rapidly that it will peg two rows around the sole of a shoe in 20 seconds. 1897 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 177/2 ‘I'll bet anything they's one thing they can't never make, with all their inventin', an' that's a machine to peg shoes with.’ This, from a shoemaker, nearly a generation after the pegging-machine had come into general use. 1999 Early Amer. Homes (Nexis) 1 Apr. 54 By 1833 Samuel Preston..had invented a pegging machine, but shoemaking did not become an industrial operation until the development of a heavy-duty stitching machine in 1864. < as lemmas |
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