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n. (context UK dialect Cornwall mining English) Rich, pure tin ore.
Usage examples of "scove".
Bricks that are to be fired in clamps or scoves are usually pallet molded and hacked straight off the hack-barrow rather than being set out on the drying floor.
This is because clamps and scoves attain their maximum heat almost immediately and cannot be regulated.
So anybody intending to use clamps or scoves to fire their bricks must ensure the bricks are properly dry.
Our typical down-time brickmaker will probably only have experience with clamps, scoves, Scotch kilns, and Dutch kilns.
Clamps and scoves can be made to any desired size, from a few thousand bricks right up to a million.
Shuttles can not be used in clamps, scoves, Scotch kilns or most up-draft kilns.
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