单词 | rosser |
释义 | rossern. Chiefly North American. Any of various machines or devices for removing the outer layer of bark from a log or tree. Also: a person who operates such a machine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > machine tool for stripping bark rosser1872 1872 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1870 II. 982/1 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (41st Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 89) IX Bark-rosser and breaker. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1984/2 A common use of the rosser is in saw-mills,..to remove the bark from the log in advance of the path of the saw. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 45 Rosser, one who barks and smooths the ride of a log in order that it may slide more easily. 1978 D. MacKay Lumberjacks v. 78 The ‘rosser’, his rossing iron a short, sharp hoe, scraped off two long strips of bark down to the red inner skin. 2007 J. L. Bowyer et al. Forest Products (ed. 5) xiii. 330 A rosser head debarker is sometimes used in hardwood sawmills that process relatively large, rough logs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1872 |
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