a. or adv. Obs. rare. Meaning and origin uncertain: perh. ‘exposed’ to the blast, opposed to ‘borrow’ sheltered from the blast.
1665. D. Dudley, Metallum Martis (1854), 31. How to mend their Natures, by finning or setting the finery, lesse transhaw more borrow, which are terms of art, and by altering and pitching the works. Ibid. If the work be set transhaw and transiring from the blast, the Iron is more coldshare, lesse Fined.
