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Definition of Marvered
1. marver [v] - See also: marver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marvered
Literary usage of Marvered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"... in a perpendicular position, a number of short lengths of coloured canes.
These adhere to the molten mass, which is then withdrawn and marvered. ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The ball is now taken from the mould, reheated, and marvered till the adhering
canes are rolled into one uniform mass. This being covered with a gathering ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"A gathering of glass is made on a blowpipe, which is marvered, and slightly blown,
so as to form a thick-walled elongated globe. ..."
4. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"The ball is now taken from the mould, reheated, and marvered till the adhering
canes are rolled into one uniform mass. This being covered with a gathering ..."
5. Curiosities of Glass Making: With Details of the Processes and Productions by Apsley Pellatt (1849)
"... marvered and expanded by blowing, B; this having been allowed by its own
gravity to drop upon the marver, upon further blowing, it resembles c; ..."
6. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"... process up to the point where the manipulation of the metal in a welding state
finishes : ( 1 ) Gathering of metal; (2) same marvered, and bowl formed; ..."
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