“pumpet”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pumpet

释义

† ˈpumpet, ˈpompet Typogr. Obs.
Also 7 pompett.
[a. obs. F. pompette a puff of ribbons, etc. in dress, = med.L. pompeta (1485 in Du Cange); also ‘a pumple, or pimple on the nose,..pompette d'imprimeur, a Printers Pumpet-ball’ (Cotgr.). Ulterior origin uncertain; prob. connected with pompon, of which in some senses it was a synonym: cf. also pumping-ball.]
Usually pumpet-ball: The ball, originally covered with sheep-skin, formerly used by printers for inking the type; an ink-ball. Cf. ball n.¹ 13. Also called pump-ball, pumping-ball.
[1598: cf. pumping-ball.]1611Cotgr., Pompette d'imprimeur, a Printers Pumpet-ball..wherewith he beates, or layes Inke on, the Formes.1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xii, If..they did not sacrifice the Printers pumpet-balls [Fr. les pompettes] at Moreb, with a new edge set upon them by text letters.1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Pumpet-bal.1875Knight Dict. Mech., Pompet, a printer's inking-ball.

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