quicklime

quicklime [kwik-lahym] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. lime1(def 1).

Origin of quicklime 1350–1400; Middle English quyk lym, translation Latin calx vīva; see quick, lime1 Examples from the Web for quicklime Historical Examples of quicklime

Put some quicklime and red orpiment in water, place some warm ashes under it for a whole day, filter the liquor, and cork it down.

The Cook and Housekeeper’s Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,

Mary Eaton

In other words, both of these are merely weakened forms of quicklime.

Agriculture for Beginners

Charles William Burkett

Quicklime should always be slaked before it is applied to the soil.

Agriculture for Beginners

Charles William Burkett

Water-slaked lime is quicklime to which water has been added.

Agriculture for Beginners

Charles William Burkett

No coffins were to be used, corps93es were to be put in sacks and buried in quicklime.

Folkways

William Graham Sumner

British Dictionary definitions for quicklime quicklime noun

1. another name for calcium oxide

Word Origin for quicklime C15: from quick (in the archaic sense: living) + lime 1 Word Origin and History for quicklime n.

late 14c., from quick (adj.) “living” + lime (n.1). A loan-translation of Latin calx viva. So called perhaps for being unquenched, or for the vigorousness of its qualities; cf. Old English cwicfyr “sulfur.”