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framing, vbl. n.|ˈfreɪmɪŋ|
[f. frame v. + -ing1.]
The action of frame v. in various senses.
†1. The action of making profit. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 176/2 Framynge or afframynge or wynnynge, lucrum, emolumentum.
2. The action, method, or process of constructing, making, or shaping anything whether material or immaterial; † also, hewing of timber (obs.). Also gerundial with omission of in.
c1440Promp. Parv. 176/2 Framynge of tymbyr, dolatura. a1569A. Kingsmill Man's Est. ix. (1580) 45 There is a stone framyng, it shall be laied in Sion. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iii. iii, This curious Isle, whose framing yet Was never..known to any humane wit. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. vii. 189 Captain Bond had the framing..of it [a Fire ship]. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 123 To pin the Frame..of a Roof together, whilst it is framing. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Framing, the placing, scarphing, and bolting of the frame-timbers of a ship. 1883Manch. Exam. 16 June 4/7 The clause in dispute was of Lord Salisbury's own framing.
3. Mining. See quot. and cf. framing-table.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 913 Framing..2 (Mining) an operation upon pounded or stamped ores by which they are sorted into grades of comparative weight and consequent richness.
4. concr. Framed work; a framework; a frame or set or system of frames.
1703T.N. City & C. Purchaser 142 The Timber..to make 3 Square of Framing. 1823Scoresby Jrnl. Whale Fishery 455 The pannels of the captain's state-room door were forced out of the framing. 1828Tredgold Elem. Princ. Carpentery title-p., Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing. 1886Pall Mall G. 22 July 4/2 Walls of bamboo framing filled in with mud.
5. attrib., as framing-house, framing-timber; also framing-chisel, a heavy chisel for making mortises; framing-table Mining (see quot. and sense 3).
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 914 *Framing-chisel.
1583Hollyband Campo di Fior 57 The colledge..is the *framing house, and as it were, The shoppe of men.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 913/2 The *framing-table is..suspended in an inclined position, on pivots, so that it may be tipped into a vertical position when full, discharging its contents into separate cisterns beneath.
1522Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 184 Le *framyng tymbre. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 353/1 Framing timber, the Australian equivalent of carcassing timber. 1957N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Mar. 52/2 Framing timber, wood used in the carcassing of buildings. 1968Gloss. Formwork Terms (B.S.I.) 9 Carcassing timber (framing timber), timber used for any structural purpose in the support of the forms, but not normally in contact with the concrete.
▸ Literary Theory and Literary Criticism. The enclosure or introduction of the main narrative or narratives with another narrative; the use of this as a literary device. Cf. frame n.
1917Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 30 200 The framing of this ‘spiritual’ with narrative has a comparative interest for the student of the cante-fable in the Bahamas. 1972Boundary 2 1 108 The poem would have been a lot more effective had it ended here, but Jarrell, who is obsessed with the necessity for framing..goes on for two more stanzas. 1993F. Cornilliat & U. Langer in J. D. Lyons & M. B. McKinley Crit. Tales 125 This is already a problem in the framing of the embedded tale. |