From Middle English quyk lym ; equivalent to quick + lime .
quicklime (countable and uncountable , plural quicklimes )
Calcium oxide , which is produced by heating (calcining ) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
1898 , Oscar Wilde , The Ballad of Reading Gaol :The Warders strutted up and down, / And kept their herd of brutes, / Their uniforms were spick and span, / And they wore their Sunday suits, / But we knew the work they had been at, / By the quicklime on their boots.
calcium oxide
Albanian: gëlqere (sq) f
Armenian: կիր (hy) ( kir )
Belarusian: ва́пна n ( vápna )
Bulgarian: негасена вар f ( negasena var )
Catalan: calç (ca) f , calcina (ca) f ( Algherese )
Chechen: кир ( kir )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 石灰 (zh) ( shíhuī )
Czech: vápno (cs) n
Danish: kalk (da)
Dutch: ongebluste kalk m
Esperanto: kalko (eo)
Finnish: kalkki (fi)
French: chaux vive (fr) f
Georgian: კირი (ka) ( ḳiri )
German: gebrannter Kalk m , Branntkalk m , ungelöschter Kalk m , Kalkerde f , Ätzkalk (de) m , Calciumoxid
Greek:
Ancient: ἄσβεστος f ( ásbestos )
Gujarati: કળીચૂનો ( kaḷīcūno )
Hindi: अनबुझा चूना ( anbujhā cūnā )
Hungarian: mész (hu)
Icelandic: kalk (is) n
Ido: kalko (io)
Ingush: кир ( kir )
Irish: aol beo m
Italian: calce viva f
Japanese: 石灰 (ja) ( せっかい, sekkai )
Korean: 생석회, saengseoghoe ( saengseokhoe, saengseoghoe )
Latvian: kaļķis (lv) m
Laz: კირი ( ǩiri )
Macedonian: вар f ( var )
Malayalam: നീറ്റുകക്ക (ml) ( nīṟṟukakka )
Ossetian:
Digor: къирӕ ( k’iræ )
Iron: чъыр ( ḱ’yr )
Polish: wapno (pl) n , wapno niegaszone n
Portuguese: cal virgem f , cal viva f
Romanian: var (ro) n , var nestins (ro) n
Russian: негашёная и́звесть f ( negašónaja ízvestʹ ) , жжёная и́звесть f ( žžónaja ízvestʹ )
Sardinian:
Campidanese: carcína
Logudorese: calchína
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вапно n
Roman: vapno (sh) n
Spanish: cal viva f , cal (es) f
Swedish: kalk (sv) c , bränd kalk c , osläckt kalk c
Turkish: kalsiyum oksit (tr) , sönmemiş kireç , yanmış kireç
Ukrainian: ва́пно (uk) n ( vápno ) , палене ва́пно (uk) n ( palene vápno ) , негашене ва́пно (uk) n ( nehašene vápno )
Welsh: calch brwd
quicklime (third-person singular simple present quicklimes , present participle quickliming , simple past and past participle quicklimed )
( transitive ) To treat with quicklime.