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▪ I. meshing, vbl. n.|ˈmɛʃɪŋ|
[f. mesh v. + -ing1.]
a. The making of meshes in a net; a meshed structure; mesh-work.
1615Crooke Body of Man 904 Their coniunction is like the Meishing of a net or Plashing of a hedge. 1884Paton in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 359/1 A little practice in meshing is sufficient to develop wonderful dexterity of movement. 1907Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 8/4 Splash! go the dredges, small scoops of steel meshing. 1926Brit. Weekly 26 Aug. 430/2, I had a copper frame constructed with a panel of copper meshing to which the letters were fixed. 1968J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 300 While the Honiton makers worked the pattern first and then ‘grounded’ it with meshing,..in the East Midlands pattern and ground were made in a single process.
b. attrib.: meshing-knot, a knot used in making meshes; meshing-net (also mashing-), a net in which fish are caught in the meshes by their gills.
1795Hutton Math. Dict. s.v. Knot, Fig. 10, a Meshing knot, for nets; and is to be drawn close. 1883E. P. Ramsay Food-Fishes N.S. Wales 5 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.), The ordinary drawing-seines and mashing-nets.
▪ II. ˈmeshing, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
Entangling.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. ii. xi. 47 By any pleasant tale, Or dazeling toye of mashing loue. |