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ˈventilating, vbl. n.
[f. as prec.]
The action of the verb in various senses; ventilation.
1661J. Childrey Brit. Bacon. 86 This is a very strange thing indeed, and very well worth the Ventilating. 1743S. Hales Descr. Ventilators I. 50 The thus ventilating of Ships. 1802Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 748/1 It is the centre of the cargo which most requires ventilating. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 1053 The ventilating of rooms by openings at any height above the level of the floor.
b. attrib., as ventilating-engineer, ventilating-fan, ventilating tube, etc.
A few technical combs. are recorded in Knight Dict. Mech. and Suppl., as ventilating-brick, ventilating heater, ventilating saw, ventilating-stack, ventilating water-wheel. Also ventilating grate, ventilating jack, ventilating mill-stone in recent Amer. Dicts.
1753Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 44 This ward..had been supplied by a ventilating tube. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 1054/2 The ventilating fan of Dr. Desaguliers. Ibid. 1055/2 A ventilating pump 3 feet square and 5 feet high. 1868Chambers's Encycl. X. 68/1 Dr. Arnott's ventilating-valve. Ibid., Special ventilating-flues in the walls. 1889Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. 132 Fresh air..led into the bunkers from the ventilating shafts. c1890W. H. Casmey Ventilation 1 My experience as a ventilating engineer. |