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ed edge, employed by curriers to shave or pare the flesh side of hides. The knife is about 12 inches long and 5 wide; one end has a plain handle and the other a crosshandle, in the direction of the plane of the blade. The edge of the knife is brought up by means of a whetstone, and a wire edge is constantly preserved by a steel wire which acts as a burnisher. Cur′ri-er's tools. See:— Beam. Beam-knife. Cleaner. Clearing-stone. Crippler. Currier's knife. Horse. Mace. Pommel. Raising-board. Round knife. Rub-stone. Slicker. Steel. Striking-knife. Unhairing-knife. Cur′ry-card. A leather or wooden slip with inserted teeth like those of wool-cards, and used for currying animals. Cur′ry-comb. An implement with projecting serrated ribs, used for grooming horses. In the sculptures of Nimroud is represented a tent within which a groom is currying a horse. Cur′ry-ing. The process of shearing the green, tanned ski
e.Leather-slitting machine. Handler.Leather-softener. Hand-pegger.Leather-sorting machine. Hand-punch.Leather-splitter. Harness.Leather-stamping. Heading-knife.Leather-stretcher. Heel-blank.Leather-striping. Heel-breasting machine.Leather-stripping machine. Heel-burnishing machine.Leather-stuffer. Heel-calk.Leather-tapering machine. Heel-cutter.Leather-washer. Heel-face dresser.Lift. Heel-iron.Lining. Heel-machine.Lining-apparatus. Heel-polisherLosh-hide. Heel-polishing machine.Mace. Heel-seat cutter.Maroquin leather. Heel-shave.Moccasin. Heel-tap.Moon-knife. Heel-trimmer.Morocco-leather. Herse.Nailing-machine. Hide-handler.Oil-leather. Hide-rope.Overshoe. Hide-scraper.Packing-awl. Hide-shaving machine.Pannuscorium. Hide-stretcher.Parchment. Hide-workerPatent-leather. Hollow punch.Pebbling. Horse.Pebbling-machine. Hose.Peg. Hose-making machine.Peg-cutter. Huffling.Peg-float. Hungarian leather.Pegging-awl. Ice-creeper.Pegging-jack. Ice-sandal.Pegging-ma
equired size. From the rollers they pass to a revolving griddle, which separates those of the proper size. Those which are too large are raised by an elevator to be again passed through the machine. Rolls weighing 10 cwt. each will, it is said, crush 1,800 tons of granite before being worn out; and it is claimed that the work is performed in England at one fifth the cost of doing the same by hand. The stone-grinding mill of Neal is designed for pulverizing stone. See also ore-mill. Mace. 1. (Weapon.) A mallet, hammer, or slung-shot used in the Middle Ages to oppose warriors in armor. It had many forms: a simple iron club; a spiked club; a pointed hammer; an iron-spiked ball chained to a handle about 2 feet long. The latter were called morning stars by the train-bands of London; a grim pleasantry. The Assyrian soldiers used wooden clubs knotted with iron. — Herodotus, VII. 63. The bent maces (lissan) are found in the old Egypttian pictures, and are yet common in
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