quicklime

[ kwik-lahym ]

/ ˈkwɪkˌlaɪm /

Origin of quicklime

1350–1400; Middle English quyk lym, translation Latin calx vīva; see quick, lime¹

Whenever the furnace is cooled, so that the stone can attract moisture from the atmosphere, it falls into quicklime.

Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas |Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
How was he to get the quicklime into the vault, and Drood, alive, out of the vault?

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot |Andrew Lang
A quantity of quicklime was thrown in with the body to destroy all identification.

The Chronicles of Newgate, v. 2/2 |Arthur Griffiths
Of the sick troops from 12 to 1,500 per day were buried without the town, and quicklime thrown in.

Before and after Waterloo |Edward Stanley

The foreign community was set free, and the drug destroyed by being mixed with quicklime.

Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV |John Lord

quicklime

/ (ˈkwɪkˌlaɪm) /

another name for calcium oxide

C15: from quick (in the archaic sense: living) + lime 1