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Webster 1913 Edition


Cabbling

Cab′bling

(-blĭng)
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Noun.
(Metal.)
The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

Definition 2024


cabbling

cabbling

English

Noun

cabbling (uncountable)

  1. The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, so that the pieces can be reheated and wrought into bar iron.
    • 1850, John Weale, Rudimentary dictionary of terms used in architecture, etc. (page 71)
      The pieces of iron obtained by cabbling are then heated in another furnace almost to fusion, hammered down into shape, and ultimately drawn out into bar-iron.