| 单词 | wrapping-cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswrapping-cloth C1. attributive in sense of ‘used or designed for wrapping or covering’, as wrapping-cloth, wrapping-silk, wrapping-wire. Π 1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 75 A cup of sylver for the communion with ij wrappinge clothes for yt. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Windel,..a Wrapping-cloath. 1860 E. F. Rimbault First Bk. Pianoforte 183 Modern pianofortes have steel wire throughout, with about one octave in the bass closely lapped. The wrapping wire is of soft iron for the upper part of the octave, and of copper for the lower. 1883 Daily News 24 Apr. 5/8 The four main cables are 15¾ inches in diameter... There are 243 miles 493 feet of wrapping wire on each. 1890 Cent. Dict. at Silk Wrapping-silk, a fine strong floss employed in the manufacture of artificial flies. < as lemmas |
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