单词 | riffler |
释义 | rifflern.1 A narrow elongated tool with a curved file surface at each end, used by sculptors, metalworkers, and woodcarvers in filing concave surfaces. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > file > [noun] > other files jack file1678 knife-file1683 pillar file1683 using-file1683 carlet1688 grail1688 screw-rasp1688 riffler1797 quannet1809 safe edge1815 cross-cut1831 saw-file1846 shouldering file1846 warding file1846 found1874 side file1874 cant-filea1877 pin bone1936 1797 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. 665 Rifflers, Riffeleisen. 1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 837 The rifflers, used by sculptors, are required to be of numerous curvatures, to adapt them to the varying contour of works in marble. 1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 54 The wood may be taken down by a file or a riffler, which is a carver's bent file. 1907 Foundry Feb. 423/1 The finishing of this metal requires experience and can be done only with a wet riffler or file. 1960 Stud. Conservation 5 9 All glue-compo adhesive is scraped off the original canvas using rifflers or rough sandpaper. 1999 Furnit. & Cabinetmaking July 76/3 (advt.) Woodcarving Tools... Also Bench and Slip Stones, Strops & Strop Paste, Name Punches, Mallets, Rifflers, Rasps, Carvers' Punches. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rifflern.2ΚΠ 1811 W. Marshall Rev. Rep. to Board Agric. from Eastern Dept. Eng. 379 An enemy to the plow!—a friend to the ‘scuffler’,—‘riffler’,—‘scarifier’,—‘whiffler’. 2. A trough or sluice containing one or more transverse strips or slats to break or slow the flow of a liquid. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > pit or trough washing-trough1557 wash-trough1557 launder1671 strake1758 riffler1839 trough1877 society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > other paper-making equipment reel1809 deckle1810 ass1823 stuff-shovel1858 grounding-machine1877 asp1919 riffler1924 1839 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 15 Feb. 98 Across the bottom of this lowest trough, bars are placed dividing the ‘riffler’, as it is called, into different apartments. A small run of water is let into the trough at A, by means of which the earth is washed. 1850 N. Kingsley Diary 17 May (1914) 122 Stoped down to day and made a panning trough to pour quicksilver from the riffler into. 1924 E. C. Tucker et al. Manuf. Pulp & Paper IV. vi. 24 Rifflers, or sand traps, are wood troughs through which the stock flows from the regulating box to the screens. 1924 E. C. Tucker et al. Manuf. Pulp & Paper IV. vi. 25 The riffler is divided into two runs by the central dividing board. 1963 R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking ii. 67 With rifflers and sand tables the stock is passed at approximately 0·5% consistency along narrow channels in the base of which are felt-covered boards which are set at right angles to the flow of stock. 2001 P. L. Smith Primer for Sampling Solids, Liquids, & Gases iii. 29 Material is poured across the riffler in a direction parallel to the channels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11797n.21811 |
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