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▪ I. saluting, vbl. n.|səˈl(j)uːtɪŋ|
[f. salute v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb salute.
1533Mystik Rosary A j b, The saluting of the wounde of the right fote of our Lorde. a1617Coryat in Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1824 The Turke doth neuer at the saluting of his friend..put off his Turbant (as wee Christians doe our Hats one to another). 1811W. R. Spencer Poems 139 One day, Good-bye met How-d'y-do, Too close to shun saluting.
b. attrib. as saluting-base, saluting-colour, saluting-ground, saluting-point.
1894Times 19 May 10/1 The Queen then quitted the saluting-point. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Saluting-color, Mil., a camp-flag, distinguished by a transverse cross. 1902Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 7/2 The saluting-ground. 1905Ibid. 13 Sept. 3/2 The grim guns are disclosed as the artillery rattle past the saluting-point. 1961John o' London's 19 Oct. 447/2 All the Queen's horses..gallop right past the saluting-base. 1976C. Egleton State Visit ix. 88 The Queen had climbed on to the saluting base... The Queen left the dais to inspect the Guard of Honour.
▪ II. saluting, ppl. a.|səˈl(j)uːtɪŋ|
[f. salute v. + -ing2.]
That salutes.
1800Chron. in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 46/2 His suite arrived at this Presidency, under a salute of thirteen guns from the saluting battery. 1885Athenæum 11 July 44/3 The English pilgrim passed to the palace between bewildered boys and saluting soldiers. |