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▪ I. beaching, vbl. n.1|ˈbiːtʃɪŋ|
[f. beach v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of running or hauling a vessel up on the beach. Also attrib., as beaching gear, an appliance for hauling a sea-plane to or from the beach.
1871Daily News 26 Sept., The beaching and wreck of Her Majesty's ship Megæra. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. 221 The beaching or landing of a boat. 1936M. B. Garber Mod. Mil. Dict. 42 Beaching gear, an arrangement of wheels to be attached to the hull of a sea-plane to permit landing ashore. 1939Meccano Mag. Aug. 470/3 When the hull was ready it was placed on a specially built ‘beaching gear’, a 15-ton 8-wheeled cradle of structural steel with a series of air tanks that give it buoyancy in the water.
▪ II. † ˈbeaching, vbl. n.2 Obs. Falconry.
[f. beach v.2 + -ing1.]
A small meal or ‘feed,’ given only as a whet to appetite.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 222 Small pittances or beachings to feede them wyth, tyll þe great supper be geeuen them. 1575Turberv. Falconrie 84 Feede hir with pullets flesh..as much as shall be sufficient for a beaching. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Falcon, Give her a little beaching of warm meat [ed. 1751 a little hot meat]. |