Meaning of cabbling | Babel Free

Definitions

The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, so that the pieces can be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

archaic, uncountable

Examples

“The pieces of iron obtained by cabbling are then heated in another furnace almost to fusion, hammered down into shape, and ultimately drawn out into bar-iron.”

“Finery iron is smelted with charcoal, and when a soft mass of about two hundredweight is formed it is hammered out into a flat oval from two to four inches in thickness; this is allowed to cool, and is then broken up into small pieces, which is the process of cabbling or scabbling.”

“Cabbler (kabbler), n. One who works at cabbling. […]”

“[…] cabbling commences, which is simply breaking up this flat iron into small pieces.”

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