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descale
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Word definitions for descale in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
descale \descale\ v. t. to remove the scales from; -- e.g. of fish, or water boilers. Syn: scale.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc. 2 To remove the scales from a fish etc.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. remove the scales from; "scale fish" [syn: scale ]
Usage examples of descale.
Even under the sort of stress that would render another woman insensible, Bera ran a fearsomely orderly household, juggling tasks as disparate as descaling a fish with one hand while manning a heddle with the other with all the ease of Silva Lighthand at her best.
A wide band of the same hide, this time descaled and softened, made a corselet, covering his body from arm pit to crotch, and over that was the second belt of a warrior from which was suspended the twenty-inch knife of an accepted clansman.
And a First Secretary at the embassy in Paris would be told that if he ever mentioned having had a single conversation with the man from Langley, he’d be descaled to the lowest attaché on the ladder and shipped to a new post in Tierra del Fuego.