scrimping bar

English

Noun

scrimping bar (plural scrimping bars)

1. A device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise to make it smooth for printing.
   • 1860, Andrew Ure, Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:

     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

References

• “scrimping”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.