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▪ I. fogging, vbl. n.1|ˈfɒgɪŋ|
[f. fog v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb.: spec. (see quot. 1804).
1804A. Young Farmer's Calendar 325 Fogging..consists in keeping the whole growth of grass in upland meadows..free from either scythe or stock..and eating it in the following winter. 1834Brit. Husb. I. 484 There is an ancient practice respecting grass lands in some of the Welch counties, called fogging,—or keeping the land without stock from May or June to December. 1883N. & Q. 10 Nov. 377 Cattle turned out in the winter season to find a precarious subsistence in the fields are said to ‘go a-fogging’.
▪ II. fogging, vbl. n.2|ˈfɒgɪŋ|
[f. fog v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. in various senses. Also used attrib. (= fog-signalling), as fogging duty, fogging post.
1854Jrnl. Photogr. Soc. 21 Jan. 163/2 Another secondary cause of ‘fogging’..is the diffused light reflected from the top, bottom and sides of the camera. 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. vii. (1887) 56 Some strange fogging of his enthusiastic brain. 1883Gd. Words Nov. 722/1 Without dust ‘fogging’ is impossible. 1889W. M. Acworth Railways Eng. vii. 320 Again, ‘fogging’ is never resorted to merely to protect goods trains. 1898Daily News 5 Jan. 2 A platelayer..proceeding to his post on ‘fogging’ duty, was knocked down. 1902Westm. Gaz. 5 Nov. 12/1 At the different fogging posts on their system. 1907Ibid. 29 Oct. 9/1 The light of the home signal was out when he arrived at his fogging post.
2. Theatr. (See quot.)
1889Barrère & Leland Slang, Fogging, getting through one's part anyhow, like a man lost in a fog.
▪ III. fogging, vbl. n.3 Nail trade.|ˈfɒgɪŋ|
[Cf. fogger n.1 3.]
(See quot.)
1892Labour Commission Gloss., Fogging, the system by which small employers in the nail and chain trade..make their profits by paying their workpeople less than the recognised price, and by selling their work..to the larger employers. |