marver
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- verb To roll glass on a marver.
Examples
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I sat beside the stainless steel table (called a marver) on which I should have been rolling eternity into basic balls of liquid glass, and thought only of Martin alive in the body, Martin laughing and winning races, and Martin's lost message on videotape.
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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,
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Then I feel the stiffness of the glass as I roll it onto my torch mounted marver and later cut into it with my brass Stump Shaper.
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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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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.
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I also learnt it's strictly a right-handers 'craft, with the triangle of gloryhole, marver and chair carefully set up, and that it's teamwork - from transferring from rod to rod to be able to work on the neck of a piece, through to protecting the other worker's arm from the heat from the glass using a paddle.
Note
The word 'marver' is probably an alteration of the word 'marble'.
