Word Meanings - ENGRAVEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.

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• ENGRAVING
  1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration
• ENGRAVEMENT
  1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
• BARROW
  A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain. (more info) 1. A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• ENGRAVED
  Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines. (more info) 1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
• ENGRAVE
  To deposit in the grave; to bury. "Their corses to engrave." Spenser.
• ENGRAVER
  One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
• ENGRAVERY
  The trade or work of an engraver. Sir T. Browne.
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• ELECTRO-ENGRAVING
  The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• PHOTO-ENGRAVING
  The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.
• PHOTO-ENGRAVE
  To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo- engraving of. -- Pho`to-en*grav"er , n.
• SEA BARROW
  A sea purse.
• REENGRAVE
  To engrave anew.