| 单词 | pitching tool |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspitching tool pitching tool n. ΚΠ a1795 J. Wyke & T. Green in T. R. Crom Horological Shop Tools 1700–1900 (1980) 159 (caption) Pitching tools &c... Made by Tho.s Green. 1876 Rep. Commissioners U.S. Internat. Exhib. Vienna 1873 IV. 27 They have a good way of splitting the flags... A line is drawn on the face where a break is required; this is ‘strummed’ in with a ‘pitching-tool’... Then the stone is smartly struck on the back with a round-faced hammer. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1720/1 Pitching-tool. 1. (Watchmaking.) A tool used in placing wheels between the plates of a watch. 2. (Mining.) A kind of pick used in commencing a hole. 1994 Independent on Sunday 12 June (Review Suppl.) 69/2 The tools are the same as those used by their medieval predecessors: splayed flat-ended pitching tools, another with a mushroom head to cushion the blows of the mallet. < as lemmas |
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