Darby
['dɑ:bi]
Definition
(n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.
Editor: Segre
Examples
- Are those the fever-houses, Darby? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I fancy it was the sight of Worcester and me together, so Darby and Joan-like, that first put the good soldier in mind of matrimony. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The next step of importance after the blast furnace was the substitution of coke for coal for the reduction of the ore, which was introduced by Abraham Darby, about 1750. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The first arched iron bridge was over the Severn at Coalbrookdale, England, erected by Abraham Darby in 1777. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Segre