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▪ I. dishing, vbl. n.|ˈdɪʃɪŋ|
[f. dish v.1 + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb dish.
1679Dryden Troilus & Cr. i. ii, The dishing, the setting on the table. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 160 (L.) In the dishing out of whose Odcombian banquet, he had a considerable hand. c1806D. Wordsworth Tour Scotl. in Jrnls. (1941) I. 281 We grew impatient for our dinner..but we had to wait at least another half hour before the ceremony of dishing up was completed. 1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxxii, Nor do their anxieties end with the dishing-up of the dinner. 1919W. Lang Sea-Lawyer's Log iii. 29 The Duty Watch are busily engaged in the Barrack Room washing and drying their table utensils (a process known in the Service as ‘dishing up’). 1955Times 4 May 13/5 The dishing out of Constitutions which did not satisfy the aspirations of these African peoples.
b. Oblique position of the spokes of a wheel, making its outer face concave.
1797A. Cumming in Commun. Bd. Agric. II. 366 Dishing (or the oblique position of the spokes) added much to the strength and stiffness of wheels. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 209 The spokes were sections of ivory tusks, set in with the natural curve outward, to perfect the dishing.
▪ II. ˈdishing, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That ‘dishes’; spec. forming a concave or dish-like surface; see dish v. 4, 5, 6, 7.
1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 232 They make them [Spokes] concave or dishing..to secure the Wheel from breaking in a fall. 1707Mortimer Husb. (J.), For the form of the wheels, some make them more dishing..that is, more concave, by setting off the spokes and fellies more outwards. 1863Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXIV. ii. 94 Curby or cow hocks [of a horse] with dishing speedy cutting, or slouching action [see cut n.2 7]. 1895H. D. Traill in Fortn. Rev. Sept. 364 Urged..by Conservatives of the ‘dishing’ school [cf. dish v. 7, quot. 1869]. |