quicklime

See also: quick lime

English

Etymology

From Middle English quyk lym; equivalent to quick + lime.

Noun

quicklime (countable and uncountable, plural quicklimes)

  1. Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
    • 1898, Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol:
      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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Verb

quicklime (third-person singular simple present quicklimes, present participle quickliming, simple past and past participle quicklimed)

  1. (transitive) To treat with quicklime.
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