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▪ I. ˈhorsing, vbl. n.
[f. horse v. + -ing1.]
1. Provision of horses or cavalry.
1382Wyclif Deut. xvii. 16 Bi noumbre of horsynge arered [Vulg. equitatus numero sublevatus]. c1400Rowland & O. 389, I hafe horssynge at my will. c1650Don Bellianis 72 Send half of your men..taking with them double horsing that when we arrive..we may find fresh horses. c1896N.B. Daily Mail 17 June 4 The ordinary expenses for horsing, traffic, and general management [of a tramway].
2. The ‘covering’ of a mare.
1552Huloet, Horsynge of a mare. 1565–73Cooper Thesaurus, Catulio, to desire the male:..to go to rutter: to horsing: to blissoning. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 125 b, She..is taken to be barren..yt takes not at y⊇ first horsing. 1727Pope, etc. Mart. Scribl. i. vi.
3. A mounting as on a horse; a flogging inflicted while on another's back: see horse v. 4 b.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 105/1 Horsing, of Beer, is the setting of one Barrel upon two. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 261, I felt so indignant at the ignominious horsing I had incurred.
4. Cutlery trade. (See quot.)
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 292 What is technically called the horsing, being in fact, the seat or saddle upon which the grinder sits astride while at work. 1870Reade [see sense 5].
5. attrib. and Comb.: horsing-block, stone = horse-block 1 and 2; horsing-chain, the chain that fastens a grinder's seat to the framework of the grindstone.
1661Manch. Court Leet Rec. (1887) IV. 300 For a Horseing stone att Hyde Crosse. 1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 18. viii. §3 (1669) 452/2 [He] makes his seeming piety to God but as a horsing-block to get into the Creatures Saddle. 1708Thoresby Diary (Hunter) II. 13 We met with a great number of horsing-stones, each of three steps, but cut out of one entire stone. 1856S. C. Brees Gloss. Terms, Horsing block, a square timber framing, used in forming excavations for raising the ends of the wheeling planks. 1807E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. II. 23 A stone horsing-block stood near the doorway. 1870Reade Put yourself in his place I. 201 The stone went like a pistol-shot, and snapped the horsing-chains like thread..the grinder..had fallen forward on his broken horsing.
▪ II. ˈhorsing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2; but in sense 1, app. for phrase a-horsing.]
1. Of a mare: Desiring the horse; in heat.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 126 b, When you perceive yt she is Horsing..put to your stallion. 1870D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports (ed. 3) §1011 Mares come into season about February, and continue to be horsing, as it is called, until the end of June or middle of July.
†2. Riding on or having to do with horses; horsy.
c1613Middleton No Wit like a Woman's ii. iii, A young horsing gentleman. |