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Definition of Scabbing
1. scab [v] - See also: scab
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scabbing
Literary usage of Scabbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Foundry Practice: Treating of Loam, Dry Sand and Green Sand by Thomas Dyson West (1882)
"... scabbing OF GREEN SAND, DRY SAND, AND LOAM MOULDS. ANY section of the mould
that is covered in four or five seconds with a body of iron about two inches ..."
2. General Foundry Practice: Being a Treatise on General Iron Founding, Job by William Roxburgh (1910)
"And of all metals founded aluminium can scarcely be said to he the most difficult
to cast, and we are safe in stating that none is less liable to scabbing; ..."
3. Wooden Box and Crate Construction by Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) (1921)
"Nails driven through and clinched, or bolts, are preferable for this fastening.
scabbing—In figure 2, Plate XIII, the use of scabbing is ..."
4. History of Labour in the United States by John Rogers Commons (1918)
"Mutual " scabbing," 484. Refusal of the Order to participate in the eight- hour
movement of 1890, 484. Final efforts for a reconciliation, 485. ..."
5. Lectures on the principles of surgery: Delivered at Bellevue Hospital by William Holme Van Buren (1884)
"Other modes of healing—scabbing—Histology of the process of repair. ... is scabbing,
or healing under a scab or crust. It occurs spontaneously, under ..."
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