| 单词 | pelt ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspelt ball pelt ball n. Printing (now historical and rare) a spherical pad covered with untanned sheepskin and used for applying ink to the forme; cf. sense 2b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > inking ball pumping ball1587 ball1611 pump-ball1611 pumpet1611 pelt1683 pelt balla1828 dauber1850 dabber1854 dab1861 tampion1877 tampon1877 ink-ball1884 a1828 T. Bewick Mem. (1975) xxii. 188 The common Pelt balls then in use, so daubed the cut & blurred & overlapped its edges. 1890 Cassell's Sat. Jrnl. Feb. 328 A Shropshire printer was once unable to lay his hands upon the pelt ball with which he wanted to ink the type. 1929 Times 7 Nov. 9/3 He is assisted by his Inker, plying the pelt ball, and a ‘Printer's Devil’, who is making ink. 1960 G. A. Glaister Encycl. Bk. 190 Ink ball, a sheepskin-..covered pad, stuffed with horsehair and cotton, affixed to a wooden handled... Alternative names are dabber, ink pelt, pelt ball. < as lemmas |
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