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▪ I. shoder Gold-beating.|ˈʃəʊdə(r)|
[ad. F. chauderet, chaudret.]
The packet of skins into which the gold taken from the ‘cutch’ is placed and beaten out before its final beating in the ‘mould’. Hence ˈshodering vbl. n., in shodering-hammer.
1763W. Lewis Commerc. Philosophico-Techn. 47 Three hammers are employed..: the first, called the cutch hammer..: the second, called the shodering hammer..: the third, called the gold hammer, or finishing hammer. 1851–4Tomlinson's Cycl. Useful Arts (1867) I. 793/2 These [pieces of gold] are put between the leaves of another tool, called a shoder, made of gold beater's skin. 1911Encycl. Brit. XII. 202/1 Each leaf is then..cut into four pieces, and put between the skins of a shoder..containing about 720 skins.
▪ II. shoder
obs. form of shoulder, shudder. |
