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holing, vbl. n.|ˈhəʊlɪŋ|
[f. hole v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of making a hole or holes. Also, the production of holes, e.g. in garments (cf. hole v.1 8).
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. v. (1495) 303 The Ether..neyther maye be departed by thyrlynge and hoolynge of a nother body. c1440Gesta Rom. iv. 10 (Harl. MS.) Some tyme is suche holiyng and perforacion goode. 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 126 The holeing, digging, gripping, ditching, hacking, and hand-beating. 1910Daily Chron. 14 Mar. 6/4 The Stockings that are actually insured against holing.
attrib.1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 331 The slit or holing-in method of planting is used.
b. The action of undercutting a coal-seam.
1841Collieries & Coal Trade (ed. 2) 249 When the workman has been for some time engaged in what is termed ‘holing under’. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 66/2 The process of holing in coal is one of the severest kinds of human labour.
c. Golf. The action of holing the ball; also attrib., as holing distance, holing-out putt.
1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports (ed. 12) 695/1 He who succeeds in holeing in fewer strokes than his opponent wins that hole. 1901Scotsman 11 Sept. 10/1 A nicely-played mashie stroke took his ball within holing distance. 1906Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 4/2 The longer holing-out putts. 1972Country Life 7 Dec. 1600/3 As often as not, the ball would finish within likely holing distance.
2. concr. The stuff underlying a coal (or other) seam picked out to undermine it.
1882Nature 27 July 299 The bottom bed—7 inches thick—together with a bed of soft shale 10 inches thick, serves as a holing. 1890Goldfields Victoria 65 Soft black clay (holing)..1 inch.
3. attrib., as holing-axe, -stuff (see quots.).
1819Rees Cycl., Holeing-stuff,..the small earth or coals which is cut or picked out from under the coal in a pit. 1828Webster, Holing-ax, a narrow ax for cutting holes in posts. 1829Glover Hist. Derby I. 58 Pecking out the holeing stuff with a light and sharp tool. |