Definition of Cylindering

1. cylinder [v] - See also: cylinder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cylindering

cyhalothrin
cyheptamide
cyle
cylices
cylinder
cylinder-head-sector
cylinder block
cylinder function
cylinder functions
cylinder head
cylinder heads
cylinder lock
cylinder press
cylinder retinoscopy
cylindered
cylindering (current term)
cylinders
cylindraceous
cylindraxis
cylindric
cylindrical
cylindrical bronchiectasis
cylindrical epithelium
cylindrical lens
cylindrical lining
cylindricality
cylindricalization
cylindrically
cylindricalness
cylindricities

Literary usage of Cylindering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Silk Manufacturing and Its Problems by James Chittick (1913)
"In the cylindering process, the cloth is run over hollow metal cylinders, either hot or cold, thus acquiring an added smoothness or lustre. ..."

2. The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1913)
"I am not writing you, I am cylindering to you, ie, I am talking into a talking machine and the secretary reproduces it on the typewriter. ..."

3. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"A term said to be corrupted from cylindering, cotton or linen goods being passed between cylinders or rollers, and made of a level and uniform surface. ..."

4. British Manufacturing Industries by George Phillips Bevan, Bevan, George Phillips, 1829?-1889 (1876)
"The object of calendering, or " cylindering," is to impart to the cloth a soft and silky gloss. This is effected by passing it over and under rollers, ..."

5. Antique Furniture by Frederick William Burgess (1915)
"Plate glass, however, was made by pouring the "metal" into shallow trays, and afterwards cylindering it. The silvering process was effected in several ways, ..."

6. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"... cylinders pressed together with great force ; hence the origin of the term, which is a corruption of cylindering. The familiar domestic processes of ..."

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