lime

limetti

käyttää linnunliimaa

kalkki

kalkita puhekieltä A general term for inorganic materials containing calcium, usually calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide; quicklime.
1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 149.

Lime, which is the product of the burning of chalk or limestone, might be bought ready burnt, or it could be burnt in kilns specially constructed in the neighbourhood of the building operations.

Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.

Like the lime that foolish birds are caught with.

URSULA. She's 'limd''', I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.

HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

she looked before her, not consciously seeing, but absorbing into the intensity of her mood, the solemn glory of the afternoon with its long swathes of light between the far-off rows of limes, whose shadows touched each other.

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