单词 | soap-boiler |
释义 | soap-boilern. 1. a. One who boils (the ingredients of) soap; a soap-maker, soap-manufacturer. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > soap-maker > [noun] soaper?c1225 soap-maker1483 soap-boiler1594 soapman1813 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 77 A wise, wealthie, and ancient Sopeboyler, dwelling without Algate. 1651 J. French Art Distillation iii. 80 Quench them in the strongest Lixivium that Sope~boylers use. 1661 J. Evelyn Fumifugium i. 6 Brewers, Diers,..Salt, and Sope-Boylers, and some other private Trades. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 488. ¶1 I have a Letter from a Soap-boyler, who condoles with me [etc.]. 1752 S. Foote Taste ii. 32 A Bristol Farthing, coin'd by a Soap-Boiler to pay his Journeymen in the Scarcity of Cash. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. vi. iv. 248 The whisper spread among bankers, and brewers, and soap-boilers, and other rich people. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 331/2 There is an increasing demand for it [sc. caustic soda] on the part of bleachers and soap boilers. b. In collocations (cf. soaper n. 1c). ΚΠ 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 291 Take Soap-boylers Liquor or Lee which is very sharp and strong. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 451 The common bottle-glass is..made with..soap-boiler's waste ashes. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 475/2 Green Bottle Glass..is commonly made of soap-boiler's waste and sand. 2. A pot used for boiling soap; a soap-pan. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for making other articles > [noun] > soap-making equipment frame1725 pan1742 Jack1845 sess1853 soap-boiler1863 fan1885 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 152 The only utensil we could hit upon..to cook him in was a soap-boiler. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2233/1 A soap-boiler having a large pipe which receives the vapors rising from the kettle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1594 |
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