quicklime
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English
Etymology
From Middle English quyk lym; equivalent to quick + lime.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwɪkˌlaɪm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
quicklime (countable and uncountable, plural quicklimes)
- Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
- 1898, Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol:
- The Warders strutted up and down, / And kept their herd of brutes, / Their uniforms were spick and span, / And they wore their Sunday suits, / But we knew the work they had been at, / By the quicklime on their boots.
Synonyms
Translations
calcium oxide
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Verb
quicklime (third-person singular simple present quicklimes, present participle quickliming, simple past and past participle quicklimed)
- (transitive) To treat with quicklime.