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ˈinˌfilling, vbl. n.
[in adv. 11 c: cf. prec.]
The action of filling in (a vacant space); that which is used to fill up a hole or cavity. Also fig.
1871S. Sharp in Archæol. XLIII. 122 The fragments [of pottery]..were wheeled away and buried with the infilling. 1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. (U.S.) VI. 584 Various theories have been proposed to account for the infilling of mineral veins. 1895J. MacNeil Spirit-Filled Life xiv. 100 The Lord Jesus is prepared to grant us a fresh Infilling, a ‘refilling’ of The Holy Ghost. 1958Times Rev. Industry May 46/1 Aluminium curtain walling in conjunction with a steel framed building..reduces labour charges..incurred by the use of the normal masonry infilling. 1961Guardian 27 May 5/5 In its earliest forms, watercolour was little more than an infilling for sketches in ink and bistre. 1962Listener 1 Feb. 228/3 Those coloured earths which in French gardens so often provide the infilling for broderies. 1970Cabinet Maker & Retail Furnisher 30 Oct. 201/2 Infillings of horse hair..and hand-springing are used exclusively. 1972L. Alcock By South Cadbury viii. 178 A plausible reconstruction of the building would suggest an infilling of wattle and daub for the walls.
b. spec. in Town Planning.
1943Forshaw & Abercrombie County of London Plan 35 Five types of units of dispersed industrial population: i. Infilling of gaps in incomplete schemes within the County. 1944P. Abercrombie Greater London Plan 1944 35 A rounding off of the communities by infilling on the backlands and vacant frontages. 1964Daily Tel. 17 Mar. 23/2 No part of his plan could possibly be regarded as infilling. By which they meant one or at most two houses pushed into existing gaps. 1971P. Gresswell Environment 134 Infilling in villages is in many cases both inevitable and desirable. 1974Times 5 Feb. 10 New building, other than infilling, was more extensive on the mainland. |