† quick-setn.2
Obsolete.
A fastening device consisting of a hooked screw and nut (see quots.).
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ziplock1956
1842 Penny Mag. 27 Aug. 339/2 This quickset is a kind of a screw and nut, provided with a large hook at the top, and a small pointed hook at the bottom.
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 4th Ser. v. 123 As it unrolls, the canvas is fastened temporarily to the top beam by means of a simple but ingenious contrivance called a ‘quickset’—a much more intelligible name than is often applied to working tools.
1852 Peter Parley's Ann. 174 What are technically called quick-sets, which consist of a screw and a nut, provided with a large hook at the top, and a small pointed hook at the bottom.
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quick-setadj.2
/ˌkwɪkˈsɛt/, U.S. /ˈkwɪkˌsɛt/ Now rare.
Lively, animated; (of the senses or intellect) keen, attentive, aware.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > acuteness of physical senses > [adjective]
sharpc1000
quick?1526
subtile1565
acute1641
quick-set1653
keenc1720
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > lively, vivacious, or animated
jollyc1325
lightsomea1382
kedgec1440
fledge?1461
crank1499
frisky?a1500
sprightya1522
frisk1528
sprightful1550
quick-spirited1552
cranking1567
lively1567
quick-sprighted1579
aleger1590
bright-eyed1590
firking1594
sprightly1594
spirituous1601
great-stomached1607
spirity1615
spiritous1628
lifesomec1635
vivacious1645
rattlingc1650
quick-set1653
airy1654
animated1660
sparklinga1704
bob1721
vivace1721
animate1801
high-lifed1859
sassy1859
chippy1865
sparky1883
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high life1903
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pepful1915
jazzy1917
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zappy1969
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1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xi. 56 Then did they burst out in laughing, when they saw it [sc. his Codpiece] lift up its eares..; one of them would call it her little dille..: Another her peen, her jolly kyle,..her quick-set Imp.
1707 ‘Person of Quality’ Ess. Serious & Comical 225 My Quick-set Eyes she could not bear, nor could I without Flames see her.
1879 Scribner's Monthly July 328/2 No poverty can dull the edge of his quick-set intellect.
1913 M. Hewlett Lore Proserpine 249 My dog, a little sharp-nosed black beast, shivered as he looked about, with wide eyes and quick-set ears.
1948 C. Day Lewis Poems 1943–7 60 How got you here..past The quick-set ears, the hair-trigger nerves at each post?
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quick-setadj.3
/ˌkwɪkˈsɛt/, U.S. /ˈkwɪkˌsɛt/ 1. That hardens or sets quickly. Cf. quick-setting adj. at quick adj., n.1, and adv. Compounds 2a.
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quick-set1923
1923 Mexia (Texas) Daily News 9 Nov. 1/6 Quick set cement is used in conjunction with this process.
1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes vii. 266 Quick-set inks are also used when printing on coated paper stock.
1970 R. Johnston Black Camels xi. 178 The quickset cement was dry and hard.
1998 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 3 Dec. (Suburban Living section) 1 The rest of the shop is choked with..half-used cans of house paint and quick-set plaster.
2. Chiefly in form quickset. Designating a type of surveyor's level in which the foot-screws in the levelling head are replaced by a ball-and-socket joint to facilitate quick setting.
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quick-set1930
1930 S. W. Perrott Surveying for Schools xiv. 114 In the case of the Quickset level, there are no foot-screws, the telescope and bubble being set approximately level by a ball and socket joint.
1948 B. G. Manton Highway Surveying & Setting Out iii. 58 Many instruments of the ‘quick-set’ type are fitted with a prismatic device which enables the bubble position to be seen from the eye-piece end of the telescope.
1971 R. J. P. Wilson Land Surveying x. 215 The essential difference between the quickset level and other types is that it is a tilting level without footscrews in the levelling head.
2002 Arctic, Antarctic & Alpine Res. 34 337/2 Channel bed elevation and water depth was surveyed at 0.5-m intervals using a quickset level.
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