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Marver

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In glass manufacturing, to shape by means of a marver. Also maver.
  • noun. In glass manufacturing, a slab or tablet, originally of marble, but now generally of polished cast-iron, placed on a suitable support or stand, and used by the glass-blower to impart, by rolling and pressing, a cylindrical form to the fused glass gathered upon the end of the blowpipe.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A stone, or cast-iron plate, or former, on which hot glass is rolled to give it shape.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A flat heat-proof surface, on which a gather of glass is rolled into shape.
  • verb. To roll glass on a marver.
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