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Definition of Scrimping
1. scrimp [v] - See also: scrimp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrimping
Literary usage of Scrimping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (1903)
"The framing consists in drying and " scrimping" or ... This scrimping is what
gives lawns their elastic, springy " feel." I want to draw your attention ..."
2. Electrical Engineer (1891)
"The danger to electrical work is twofold—bad workmanship, and what old women in
Buckinghamshire call " scrimping." In previous years we have had our say as ..."
3. Some Facts about Treating Railroad Ties by William Francis Goltra (1912)
"If the life of the timber depends upon the amount of preservative injected, as
long-time experience seems to teach, then scrimping the material might be ..."
4. Some Facts about Treating Railroad Ties by William Francis Goltra (1913)
"... as long-time experience seems to teach, then scrimping the material might be
expected to result as scrimping usually does in other engineering work, ..."
5. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"The word, in both senses, is colloquial in the north of England and in the United
States. Scrimping. Scanty; close; parsimonious. Also used adverbially. ..."
6. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1860)
"Ma roller, from which the fabric to be printed is unrolled by the movement of
the machine, first passing over the scrimping bars 14, and joining at к the ..."
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