Lexicographical Neighbors of Scummers
Literary usage of Scummers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Worrall's directory of Warrington, Wigan, St. Helens [&c.]. (1876)
"Before we applied the scummers we cleaned the Pistons every three months, ...
We have had your Patent scummers at work for some time, on four of our Boilers ..."
2. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies by Bryan Edwards (1806)
"... the liquor is suffered to boil; and as the scum rises, it is continually taken
off by large scummers, until the liquor grows finer and somewhat thicker. ..."
3. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... and prepare it for graining ; all the time it is boiling, with large copper
scummers, they take off the scum, which constantly rises in great quantities ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... and had for their Cattell Skillets, Basons, and scummers. One seemed to be
chiefe, whom the Generall kindly entertained in his Tent, and wee after that ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... Basons, and scummers. the Generall kindly after that bought more Goats, with
small hornes, the flesh white like our : of an egge, wilde, and themselves. ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"... of the sand was 4 inches (О'ЗЗ foot in A) instead of 3 inches, and the scummers
raised so as to maintain the water higher in a corresponding degree. ..."
7. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1857)
"... England relied upon her native forges for andirons, gridirons, locks, hammers,
pincers, fire-tongs, dripping-pans, chafing-dishes, ladles, scummers. ..."
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