Cassell's Technical Educator (1877–1882).
The 503rd most frequently quoted source in the OED, with a total of 914 quotations (about 0.02% of all OED quotations).
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| bob | An apparatus for polishing silver, plated goods, or other burnished metal surfaces… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| bob | trans. To polish (metal) with a bob (see bob n.). | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| bowler | A workman who shapes the bowl of a spoon. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| burring | The removing of burs and other foreign bodies from wool or cotton in the process… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| centrifugalize | trans. To impart a centrifugal motion to. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| counter-batter | trans. To batter with a return fire (from a counter-battery). | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| counter-clout | A nail with a large head flat above like a clout-nail but bevelled below so as to be counter-sunk in an iron plate, etc. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| cutch | A pile of vellum (or parchment paper) leaves, between which laminæ of gold-leaf are placed to be beaten. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| formyl | The hypothetical radical (CHO) of formic acid. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| hyperboloidal | Of the form of a hyperboloid. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| nibby | Of wool, etc.: full of nibs or knots. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| pinholing | The presence or production of pinholes. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| pyro | Pyrogallol used as a developing agent. Freq. attrib. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| stumping | The action of stump v. Also attrib. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| under-feature | A minor feature in a landscape; a small elevation. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| unlubricated | (un- prefix 8). | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
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