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▪ I. stoning, vbl. n.|ˈstəʊnɪŋ|
[f. stone v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb, in various senses.
1. Pelting with stones; esp. (in ancient times) as a form of capital punishment.
a1300Cursor M. 19467 Quils þai him wit staning queld. c1400Sc. Trojan War ii. 1595 With mony bitter panes Of stanyng of hir moder schene. c1440Promp. Parv. 477/1 Stonynge, lapidacio. 1548Elyot's Dict., Lapidatio, a stonyng, a hurlynge of stones. 1657N. Billingsley Brachy-Martyrol. viii. 27 The Christians underwent all wrongs, As Scourgings, stonings. 1849M. Arnold Sick King in Bokhara 112 They..sentenc'd him..To die by stoning. 1886C. Bigg Chr. Platonists Alexandria iv. 117 He narrowly escaped stoning in the streets.
2. Paving, building up, or repairing with stones. Also concr.
1797J. Curr Coal Viewer 13 These roads..are laid..upon wood, (after..stoneing about ten or twelve inches thick for a foundation). 1819[see garland n. 7]. 1867Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Ser. ii. III. ii. 664 At the entrances to large rivers it was sometimes necessary..to have careful stoning, because the work was frequently tested by heavy seas.
3. Rubbing or scouring with a stone. Also attrib.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 92/2 (Wool carding) Stoning of it [sc. the Card] is burnishing of it. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 387/1 In machine currying the tanned hides..are struck out in a ‘stoning’ machine. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Stoning Jack, a machine in which the jack is furnished with a stock stone to work the leather.
4. Clearing (ground) of stones; taking the stones out (of fruit).
1628Bp. Hall Fast Serm. 27 To what purpose is the fruitfulnesse, fencing, stoning, if the ground yeeld a plentiful Crop of..Weedes? 1747H. Glasse Cookery 154 To preserve Gooseberries whole without stoning.
5. Formation of the stone in fruit. Also attrib.
1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 475 The setting and stoning of fruit... The fruit is thinned before and after the stoning season. Ibid. 484 When the stoning is completed and the fruit begins to swell.
▪ II. ˈstoning, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That stones, in senses of the vb.; † petrifying.
1623W. Lisle ælfric's O. & N. Test. To Rdrs. ⁋4 To mould the dow of artificiall marble, and bake it in Killes for building..or tempered with clammy and stoning waters, to plaster and polish it with tooles appliable vnto all formes. 1891Meredith One of our Conq. xxxii, A man whose appearance breathed of offering her common ground, whereon to meet and speak together, unburdened by the hunting world, and by the stoneing world. |