单词 | trevat |
释义 | † trevatn. Obsolete. An instrument with a sharp blade formerly used for cutting the loops which form the pile of velvet, Wilton carpets, etc., when hand-woven. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > equipment for cutting > other trevat1831 parting tool1861 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 279 Running a sharp instrument called a trevat along the groove of the wire. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. vi. 203 A cutting instrument called a trevat..severing the pile threads. 1864 Q. Rev. July 31 These rows of loops are afterwards cut through by an instrument now called a ‘trevat’, and thus the peculiar surface of velvet is given. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Trivet. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 467/1 Along this groove a cutting knife called a trivet is run to cut the loops. 1914 Let. fr. Tomkinson & Adam, Kidderminster 21 Apr. The word, as we understand it here, is spelt ‘Travat’, and [the specimen] is so labelled in the Museum; but the knife has been out of use so many years that only men who are 80 years of age or thereabouts remember anything of it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1831 |
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