soap boiling
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a word derived from
soap boiler.
soap boilernouna manufacturer of soap
Example Sentences
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There was a great kettle of soap boiling over a fire just behind the house, and all day long Judith and her mother took turns stirring it with a long stick.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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If soap boiling is really inconsistent with brotherhood, so much the worst for soap-boiling, not for brotherhood.
From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Of course, this soap boiling took place out of doors.
From Stories of American Life and Adventure by Edward Eggleston