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Scrimping   Listen
noun
Scrimping  n.  A. & n. from Scrimp, v. t.
Scrimping bar, a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scrimping" Quotes from Famous Books



... the scrimping and the saving Jack, at Oxford, and Tom, at Winchester, now entailed on the part of those who lived at Old Place. Why, she herself counted every penny with anxious care, and the stupid, kindly folk who asked, ...
— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

... shears he had made a fatal slip and had irreparably damaged them in an essential location. However, he said I need not worry, because it might have been worse; from what he had already cut out of them he had garnered enough material to make me a neat outing coat, and by scrimping he thought he might get a ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb



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