英语词汇“trevat”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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trevat

释义

† trevat Obs.|ˈtrɛvət|
Also travat, trivet, trevette (Cent. Dict. 1891).
[Derivation unascertained.]
An instrument with a sharp blade formerly used for cutting the loops which form the pile of velvet, Wilton carpets, etc., when hand-woven.
1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 279 Running a sharp instrument called a trevat along the groove of the wire.1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. vi. 203 A cutting instrument called a trevat..severing the pile threads.1864Q. 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.1877Knight Dict. Mech., Trivet.1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 467/1 Along this groove a cutting knife called a trivet is run to cut the loops.1914(Apr. 21) Let. fr. Tomkinson & Adam, Kidderminster, 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.

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