marver

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With incredible speed the blower flattened its base upon a marver or table topped with sheet iron.

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  1. In glass manufacturing, a slab or tablet, originally of marble, but now generally of polished cast-iron, placed on a suitable support or stand, and used by the glass-blower to impart, by rolling and pressing, a cylindrical form to the fused glass gathered upon the end of the blowpipe. It sometimes has concavities formed in it, by which a spheroidal shape may be given to the fused mass when desired. Also maver. Let us watch another workman who is rolling on a marver his freshly gathered lump of soft glass. Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 260.
  2. In glass manufacturing, to shape by means of a marver. Also maver. A mass of glass is then gathered, marvered, slightly expanded, and thrust into the opening of the mould. Glass-making, p. 60.

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  • With incredible speed the blower flattened its base upon a marver or table topped with sheet iron. —  The Story of Glass
  • The low and steady roar of the flames was varied by the occasional sharp click of iron or the soft sound of hot glass rolling on the marver, or by the hiss of a metal instrument plunged into water to cool it. —  Marietta A Maid of Venice
  • While he warmed the end of his blow-pipe at the 'bocca' he looked to right and left to see where the working-stool and marver were placed, and to be sure that the few tools he needed were at hand, the pontil, the 'procello,'--that is, the small elastic tongs for modelling--and the shears. —  Marietta A Maid of Venice
  • One man, one blowpipe, one marver -- and the man least 'count of all. " —  Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls
  • What would there be to laugh at in the world, if the human sandiver were removed It might be an improvement to have the gall removed, my dear," remarked Optima, significantly; but Miselle was too busy in watching the skimming to understand the gentle rebuke Thrusting the pontil far into the pot, the workman moved it gently from side to side, turning it at the same time, until he suddenly withdrew upon its point a large lump of glowing substance, which he shook off upon a smooth iron table standing near, called a marver, (that is, marbre_,) in size and shape not unlike the largest of a nest of teapoys. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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