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▪ I. grooving, vbl. n.1|ˈgruːvɪŋ|
[f. groove v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. groove.
1. dial. Mining.
1892Daily News 10 Mar. 5/1 There are men still living who remember the old mining days, when ‘grooving’ for calamine was the main occupation of the [Mendip] district.
2. a. The making or cutting of grooves in wood, etc. b. The formation of channels or furrows in the surface of rocks by glacial action. c. The result of the action; a groove or set of grooves. Also fig.
1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 81, I must just explain..the foregoing Plate concerning Fluting or Grooving. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 159 Grooving and Rebating consist in taking or abstracting a part which is every where of a rectangular section. 1846E. Forbes in Mem. Geol. Surv. I. 345 This was the epoch of glaciers and icebergs, of boulders, and groovings, and scratches. 1850Mrs. Browning Woman's Shortcomings i, Her soul must slip Where the world has set the grooving. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. ii. 20 The laminated structure..always corresponded to the superficial grooving. 1877W. Thomson Voy. Challenger II. iv. 249 We can fully accept the grooving of rocks and the accumulation of moraines as complete evidence of a former existence of glacial conditions. 1883L. Oliphant Haïfa (1887) 25 In the groovings of rocks upon which the sea now breaks. 1899Q. Rev. July 159 The softer material would be blown through the barrel without taking the grooving—would strip, as it is technically called.
3. attrib., as grooving-head, grooving-hook, grooving-plane, grooving-saw, grooving-tool.
1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. iv. 70 There are several other Plains in use among Joyners,..as,..the Grooving-plain, &c. 1681Ibid. xi. 196 Of Grooving Hooks and Grooving Tools. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 582 Others are occasionally used in forming any kind of prismatic surfaces, viz. rebating-planes, grooving-planes, &c. a1877Knight Dict. Mech. III. 2033/2 List of sawing-machines invented and manufactured by him [sc. Gen. Sir Samuel Bentham]..previous to 1800... Double-grooving saws. 1882R. Grimshaw Suppl. to Grimshaw on Saws 235 Fig. 322 shows a form of sectional grooving saw in which the action is gradual throughout the width of the cut. 1892Mod. Mechanism (ed. Benjamin) 387 An expansion-gaining or grooving-head. 1915Saw in History (Henry Disston & Sons) iii. 35 Grooving Saws, as the name indicates, are designed for cutting grooves of various widths and depths. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 391/1 Grooving saw, a circular saw which may be of the drunken type, used for cutting grooves. 1964W. L. Goodman Hist. Woodworking Tools 155 (caption) Grooving Saws, dated 1771 and 1803.
▪ II. † ˈgrooving, vbl. n.2 Obs.
A variant (perh. only graphic) of grueing, shivering.
1637Brian Pisse-prophet ii. (1679) 15 This party was taken in the manner of an Ague with a grooving in the back, and pain in the head. Ibid. iii. 45. 1638 A. Read Chirurg. xvii. 123 If a fever in these wounds doe appeare..with a cold and grooving, it is dangerous. |