blackleading

The grandmother had been blackleading the stove, it was Saturday morning.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

The wax mould being built, is ready for blackleading, to give it a conducting surface upon which the metal may be deposited in the bath, superfluous blacklead being removed with a bellows.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various

The same process of blackleading may be employed to get a coat of deposited metal which will strip easily from the cathode.

On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

In Messrs. Harper's establishment in New York, an improved wet process of blackleading is adopted.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various

Norah, enveloped in a huge apron, was energetically polishing the kitchen tins; the boys, in their shirt-sleeves, were equally busy, Wally scrubbing the sink with Monkey soap, and Jim blackleading the stove.

Captain Jim Mary Grant Bruce 1918

They discover that they love Mary Ann at the precise moment when that faithful domestic is blackleading the stove, and nothing will relieve their feelings but to embrace her then and there.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

Already at the clatter of the shop bell Mrs Neale, blackleading the parlour grate, had looked through the door, and rising from her knees had gone, aproned, and grimy with everlasting toll, to tell Mrs Verloc in the kitchen that “there was the master come back.”

The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale Joseph Conrad 1890

She was on her knees blackleading her grate, all in confusion, poor soul! her little carpet up, everything topsy-turvy, a domestic earthquake having been commenced that very morning in preparation for my coming, Miss Anne having kindly warned her that she might be 'all ready;' but I was too early, and so found her all unready, only her heart as right as could be.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

A servant fresh from the blackleading of a grate opened the door to them, grinning with recognition at the sight of Mutimer.

Demos George Gissing 1880

Certainly, considering what she did in the way of scolding, scouring, blackleading, polishing and sand-papering that week, it was not Martha's fault if we did not "get straight again," furniture and feelings.

We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863