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scrimping bar en · NOUN
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A device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise to make it smooth for printing.
The piece is conducted under a small wooden roller, next over a square iron bar, and next against the scrimping bar Y, thence over the wooden roller x, round which also pass the grey piece d, and the woollen blanket e
1860, Andrew Ure, Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
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