Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extracted without the aid of heat: applied specifically to oils expressed from nuts, seeds, or fruits which have not been heated. Such oils are of finer quality than those which are hot-pressed.
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Examples
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I made acquaintance, on this journey, with a mild and modest young quaker, who opened the discourse by informing me, in a grave whisper, that his grandfather was the inventor of cold-drawn castor oil.
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· Saving in steel reinforcement can be achieved by good structural design and use of deformed bars or prestressing with cold-drawn low-carbon steel wire.
Chapter 4 1988
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CWPC cold-drawn low-carbon steel wire prestressed concrete
Chapter 12 1988
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· However, the cold-drawn low-carbon steel wire prestressed concrete (CWPC) technology, developed in China, where about 3000 CWPC factories produce 20 million m3 of precast components annually, is a promising alternative.
Chapter 4 1988
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-- Where this is recommended the cold-drawn oil is meant, not the essential oil.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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Daily rubbing briskly over the whole body with the cold-drawn oil of mustard for a quarter-of-an-hour will have this effect, and even by itself may cure.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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A gill of cold-drawn castor-oil, added to the above, would be beneficial.
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The "cold-drawn" Arachis oil (pea-nut or earth-nut oil) has a pleasant flavour, resembling that of kidney beans.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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_# -- Diamond pattern; cold-drawn seamless steel tubing; 1-1/8 inch tubing in the quadrangle with the exception of the head, which is 1-1/4 inch.
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Thus constructed of three pieces of wood, united by alternate opposite dovetails and bound together by cold-drawn iron plates, they revolved in the trees or amaxopodes.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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