quicklime
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 26
- Words With Friends
- 30
- Letters
- 9
/ˈkwɪkˌlaɪm/
Definition of quicklime
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
“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.”
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noun
-
(countable, uncountable)Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
“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.”
verb
- (transitive)To treat (something) with quicklime.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English quyk lym; equivalent to quick + lime.
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