crozzle

名词 n. 动词 v.

中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.

A brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture. countable,uncountable

— Crozzles, burrs and clinkers are bricks which have partly lost their shape through overheating.
Hardened slag from a cementation furnace. countable,uncountable

— The furnace was again entered, and the crust to the chests broken down; it had partially vitrified and had absorbed iron oxide and was removed in black, craggy pieces, often referred to as 'crozzle' - still sometimes to be found as a capping to walls in the vicinity of the old furnaces.
A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits. countable,uncountable

— Between the ammonoid bands are three horizons of highly sheared mudstone resembling the 'crozzle' beds described by Cope (1946) at a similar stratigraphical level west of Buxton, and known also in Lancashire.

动词 v.

To shrink or shrivel from exposure to heat.

— Gaston de Mowbray ground his hair in powder, and tore his teeth out in handfuls; his breath gushed forth with that icy coldness as to crozzle up the table before which he sat into a cinder; he paces the room to such an extent, that the past hung in penny cakes all over the apartment.

crozzles plural crozzles present,singular,third-person crozzling participle,present crozzled participle,past crozzled past