| 单词 | verge-file |
| 释义 | > as lemmasverge-file c. attributive and in other combinations, as verge escapement, verge-file, verge hole, verge-maker, verge-pivot, verge spring, verge watch. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch German watch1611 larum watch1619 clock-watch1625 minute watch1660 pendulum watch1664 watch1666 alarm watch1669 finger watch1679 string-watch1686 scout1688 balance-watch1690 hour-watch1697 warming-pan1699 minute pendulum watch1705 jewel watch1711 suit1718 repeater1725 Tompion1727 pendulum spring1728 second-watch1755 Geneva watch1756 cylinder-watch1765 watch-paper1777 ring watch1788 verge watch1792 watch lamp1823 hack1827 bull's-eye1833 vertical watch1838 quarter-repeater1840 turnip1840 hunting-watch1843 minute repeater1843 hunter1851 job watch1851 Geneva1852 watch-lining1856 touch watch1860 musical watch1864 lever1865 neep1866 verge1871 independent seconds watch1875 stem-winder1875 demi-hunter1884 fob-watch1884 three-quarter plate1884 wrist-watch1897 turnip-watch1898 sedan-chair watch1904 Rolex1922 Tank watch1923 strap watch1926 chatelaine watch1936 sedan clock1950 quartz watch1969 pulsar1970 1792 Trans. Soc. Arts 10 217 Common verge watches have no oil upon the pallets. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 508 The verge-pivots of a good sized pocket~watch. 1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 29/1 The end of the screw is attached to a strong verge spring. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Verge-maker, a maker of pallets; a branch of the watch-movement trade. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2707/1 Verge-file, a fine file with one safe side, formerly used in working on the verge of the old vertical escapement. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2708/1 The vertical or verge escapement is old-fashioned. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 128 In good clocks the pallets and verge holes are jewelled. 1963 Times 6 Feb. 12/4 An anonymous purchaser gave 290gns. for a seventeenth-century verge watch by John Drake. 1977 Cleethorpes News 6 May 22/4 (advt.) Clocks, silver watches, verge watches. < as lemmas |
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