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stringing, vbl. n.|ˈstrɪŋɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. string:
a. in trans. senses.
1620Bacon Let. 30 Aug. Lett. & Rem. (1734) 112 The stringing of the harp, nor the tuning of it will not serve, except it be well plaied on from time to time. 1655in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 5 The polyphon is an instrument of so different a stringing and tuning that its impossible to play what is sett to it on any other hand instrument. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3391, A new mode of stringing, adapted to instruments of all kinds. 1884Tennis Cuts 69 All these results have been caused by the change in the stringing of rackets [etc.]. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VII. ix. 82 The stringing together of words and ideas in triplets. 1914S. Gibson Some Oxf. Libr. vi. 78 The stringing and restringing of books..provided the Bodleian binders with much work.
b. in intr. senses.
1873Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 477 The choice of balls and order of play shall..be determined by stringing. 1883E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leicestersh. 194 [The] party sail on..no tailing or stringing to-day, but the whole one compact and hurrying mass. 1892Greener Breech-Loader 267 The great stringing of the charge is due to the heavy charge of explosive used. The average stringing in a properly loaded gun is about ten feet at forty yards. 1952Iowa Quest 31 Jan. 3/5 ‘Stringing’ is interesting and has provided many aspiring journalists with valuable on-the-job training. 1970A. Fowles Dupe Negative iii. 23 I'd shot an interview with him..on a stringing job for the BBC. 1973Times 3 July 18/7 Lyall then did more years in the editor's chair..before devoting himself to stringing.
2. concr.
a. Strings collectively; † ornamentation of lace or fringe. Obs.
1722Ramsay Three Bonnets ii. 15 And where gat ye that braw blue stringing, That's at your houghs and shuthers hinging? 1851–4Tomlinson's Cycl. Arts II. 308/2 The stringing [in a pianoforte] was formerly much thinner than at present.
b. Material for the string-board of a staircase, or for string-courses on a building.
1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §239. 125 Moulded nosings to the steps to be housed (let in) into the close stringing, which is to be one and a quarter inch thick, sunk. 1858Skyring Builders' Prices 91 In all copings, stringings, pilasters, cornices, and other solid works, find the cube quantity of stone as it comes from the banker to the building.
c. Straight or curved inlaid lines in cabinet-work.
1812MS. Letter, I have purchased some veneer, but cannot get any stringing. 1842G. Francis Dict. Arts. 1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 86 Holly..is used..for the stringings or lines of cabinet-work. 1846Ibid. II. 737 The stringings, or the straight and circular lines combined with pearl buhl work, are mostly of white metal.
3. Silk-dyeing. The operation of twisting the hanks of silk after dyeing, in order to separate the fibres and impart lustre.
1885J. J. Hummel Dyeing Textile Fabrics 55 Stringing or Glossing (Fr. chevillage).
4. Comb.: stringing course, a string-course; stringing-deal (see quot.); stringing-machine (see sense 3). † In Billiards: stringing-line, the baulk-line; stringing nail, each of two nails formerly used as ‘spots’ on the baulk-line; stringing spot, each of two ‘spots’ on the baulk-line.
1861G. M. Musgrave By-roads 179 Handsome farmhouses, built up in red brick with stone facings, labellings, and *stringing courses.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., *Stringing-deals, Eng. Thin planks, nailed to the inside of the curbs in a shaft, so as to suspend each curb from those above it.
1873Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 6 The players led from the centre of the *stringing-line or baulk, which occupied a quarter of the table, instead of about a fifth as at present.
1885J. J. Hummel Dyeing Textile Fabrics 55 The *stringing machine.
1788J. Beaufort Hoyle's Games Impr. 195 *Stringing-nail is that part of the table from whence the player strikes his ball at first setting off, and is generally marked with two brass nails. 1808C. Jones Hoyle's Games Impr. 338 A red ball is to be placed..between the stringing nails or spots.
1839E. Kentfield Billiards 29 The player, in stringing for the lead,..must not place his ball beyond the *stringing spots. |