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poker-work
ˈpoker-work [f. poker n.1 + work n.] Artistic work done by burning a design on the surface of white wood with a heated pointed implement. Also fig. Hence poker-worked a. (in example applied to a design resembling poker-work). Originally, a pointed poker was used, later the ‘heater’ of an Italian iro...
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poker-work
poker-workn [U](a) art of making designs, pictures, etc on wood, leather, etc by burning the surface with a very hot tool 烙画术, 烫画术(用烙铁在木、 皮革等上烙出图案等).(b) such designs 烙画; 烫画.
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poker
▪ I. poker, n.1 (ˈpəʊkə(r)) [f. poke v.1 + -er1.] 1. a. An instrument for poking or stirring a fire, consisting of a stiff metal rod, one end of which is fitted with or formed into a handle. Jew's poker: see quot. 1899.1534 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 126 He..came downe with a poker i...
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xylo-
xylo- (ˈzaɪləʊ) before a vowel xyl-, repr. Gr. ξυλο-, ξυλ-, comb. form of ξύλον wood: the first element of various scientific and technical words, the more important of which see in their alphabetical places. ˈxylochlore (-klɔə(r)) Min. [ad. G. xylochlor (von Waltershausen, 1853), f. Gr. χλωρός gree...
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scorch
▪ I. † scorch, n.1 Obs. Forms: 5 scorche, skorch, scorce, 6 scorch. [a. OF. escorche, escorce (mod.F. écorce).] Rind, bark.1480 Caxton Ovid's Met. x. viii, The chylde, of whiche Mirra was grete, grewe, w{supt} payne under the scorche & rynde. 1481 ― Myrrour ii. x. 90 Other trees there growe..that be...
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pyrography
pyˈrography [f. pyro- 1 + -graphy.] † 1. A description of fire-arms. Obs.1684 tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts xxii. 67 The several varieties of Guns and Fire-vomiting Engines, of which lately my self have written a..Treatise, Entituled Pyrographie. 2. a. A method of wood-carving by means of heated metallic ...
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pyro-
pyro- (paɪərəʊ, pɪrəʊ) before a vowel or h sometimes pyr- (but more freq. pyro-), repr. Gr. πυρο-, combining form of πῦρ fire, forming the first element in many terms belonging to various arts and sciences. (The second element is properly of Greek, but sometimes of Latin or English origin.) 1. In va...
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