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piecing, vbl. n.|ˈpiːsɪŋ|
[f. piece v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb piece; patching, mending or completing by joining pieces.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 168 Ffor þei ffor þe pesinge paieth pens ten duble That þe cloþe costened. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 127 Peecynge of a shafte with brasell and holie..is to make the ende compasse heauy. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iv. ii. Wks. 1863 VII. 374 The piecing up of these domestick breaches betwixt husband and wife. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 303 Rhime is like Lace, that serves excellently well to hide the Piecing and Coarsness of a bad Stuff. 1771Luckombe Hist. Print. 281 Piecing of Rules is often attended with considerable trouble. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 312 The pieceing is soon over, as the carriage does not stop an instant at the frame. 1884Athenæum 1 Nov. 562/3 An infinite piecing of minute facts.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1545Rates of Customs c iij, Pesing threde the dossen pound xiis. iiiid. 1594Acc.-Bk. W. Wray in Antiquary XXXII. 347, i li. pecinge thred, iis. vjd. 1640in Entick London (1766) II. 170 Whited brown or pieceing thread. 1881Jacobi Printer's Vocab. 100 Piecing leads, in wide measures of type the leads required are usually pieced. |