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单词 skintle
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skintlen.

Brit. /ˈskɪntl/, U.S. /ˈskɪn(t)əl/
Forms: 1800s scintle, 1800s– skintle.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: skintle v.
Etymology: Apparently < skintle v. Compare earlier skintling n.
A brick set diagonally against another; a brick designed to be used in this way. Frequently attributive.
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heading course1659
skintle1850
1850 E. Dobson Rudimentary Treat. Manuf. Bricks & Tiles i. ii. 50 It should be understood that the directions of the scintles, as well as that of the paving below it, are changed for every neck.
1884 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks iv. 141 The straight courses, pillar, hangers, and skintle bricks.
1920 E. Lovejoy Burning Clay Wares ix. 234 A large factor in common brick setting is the possibility of rapid work even at some expense in quality, and for common bricks the skintle method.
1938 Information Circular (Geol. Surv. Ohio) 4th ser. 1 13 This State is especially well supplied with raw material for terra cotta and glazed building block, salt glazed and enameled brick, skintles, and paving block.
1999 J. Warren Conservation of Brick ii. 35/1 Bricks of this type of manufacture very often display marks as bars of the same glaze on other faces, sometimes at 30-45 degrees to the alignment of the brick in the kiln. It is known as skintle setting and improves stability in the kiln.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

skintlev.

Brit. /ˈskɪntl/, U.S. /ˈskɪn(t)əl/
Forms:

α. 1800s scintle, 1900s– skintle.

β. 1800s– skinkle (English regional (Hertfordshire)).

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.Various Germanic etymons are suggested in Notes & Queries (1883) 3 March 178, but none of these are formally or semantically close. Earlier currency is perhaps implied by skintling n.
Brickmaking.
transitive. To separate and reset (half-dried bricks) at angles to each other in order to complete the drying process. Also intransitive.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > brick and tile making > make bricks and tiles [verb (transitive)] > specific processes
strike1683
shinlog1703
deliver1809
hack1813
underburn1841
malm1850
off-bear1856
skintle1876
kelly1884
1824 W. Rhodes Brit. Patent 5039 (1857) 3 The clamp or kiln is set or put up, and fuel applied to it.., I skintle one or two of the last courses of raw bricks, (that is to say,) I place them with an opening of at least half an inch between one and another, and dispose them rather diagonally, filling up the intervals so formed with small coke or breeze.
1839 J. Millington Elem. Civil Engin. viii. 271 Every course of bricks is made to extend an inch and a half beyond the course immediately below it, for five courses in height, taking care to skintle well behind, that is, to back up, or fill up with bricks against the over-spanners.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 280/2 When half dry the bricks are separated somewhat (scintled), to allow free access of the air.
1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service 236 They dried slowly, and were regularly ‘skintled’, or rearranged so that the air might get all round them.
1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 80 Skintle, a brickmaking term. To turn the bricks in the hack edgewise to complete the drying.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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