quicklime

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

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.

• burnt lime, caustic lime, unhydrated lime, anhydrous lime, lime

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

1. (transitive) To treat with quicklime.