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Definition of Descale
1. Verb. Remove the scales from. "Scale fish"
Definition of Descale
1. Verb. To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc. ¹
2. Verb. To remove the scales from a fish etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Descale
1. to remove scales from fish [v DESCALED, DESCALING, DESCALES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descale
Literary usage of Descale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1868)
"... which is one of the ancient descale referred to is not the Diatonic, fective
scales mentioned in the text we but the Enharmonic. ..."
2. The Tichborne Trial: The Summing-up by the Lord Chief Justice of England by Arthur Orton, Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1874)
"I cannot gay, holding the ought to have gone and associated with the descale
evenly between the t»o parties, that either fendant ; but it does not affect ..."
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