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▪ I. carrying, vbl. n.|ˈkærɪɪŋ|
1. The action of the vb. carry in various senses.
c1440Promp. Parv. 62 Caryynge. 1521in Bury Wills (1850) 123 Item for carieng of tymber. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 13 The sheathing, furring, carrying, washing, and breaming. a1719Addison (J.), In the carrying of our main point. 1769in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 220 The slave carrying and limitation Bills. c1865Circ. Sc. 435/1 In subtraction the carrying can never amount to more than 1.
2. with advbs. carrying-over = carry-over a.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxv. §3 The carrying him forth upon a bier. 1611Bible Matt. i. 17 Vntill the carrying away into Babylon. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 43 There are many things..worth the carying away. 1711Addison Spect. No. 73 ⁋5 The carrying on of Traffick, the Administration of Justice. 1729in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 87 The carrying on the building. 1907Poley & Gould Stock Exch. 168 The General Contango Day (these days are also known as Continuation or Carrying-over Days). Ibid. 175 Where the broker is himself the taker-in rendering a carrying-over note, he is not entitled to charge both commission and contango. 1910H. Withers Stocks & Shares 277 If no charge is made for carrying over, a full commission is usually paid when the bargain is finally closed.
3. An act of carrying; that which is carried. carryings-on (pl.): questionable or outré proceedings, flirtations, frolics; also sing.; cf. carry v. 52 e.
1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 556 Is this the end To which these Carryings-on did tend? 1821Byron Two Foscari ii. i. 305 Your midnight carryings off and drownings. 18..Peter Cram in Knickerbocker Mag. (Bartlett) Wherever there were singin' schools, there would be carryings-on. c1865Circ. Sc. I. 510/2 The carryings from the rejected decimals are to be taken account of. 1866Brierley Fratchingtons i. 5 Theau'd weary th' patience ov a jackass wi' thi carryins on. 1890J. Service Notandums xi. 80 What carryin's on have I no seen there! 1909Masefield Trag. Nan i. 13 You'll let 'er marry 'im, after 'is carrying on along o' Jenny?
4. attrib., as in carrying corporation, carrying horse, carrying power, carrying vessel; carrying-capacity, the number of people or animals (esp. sheep or cattle) that a given area of land will support; also transf.; carrying-chair, a chair in which a person is carried; carrying-place, a place where goods, etc. have to be carried overland in inland navigation (cf. carriage, carry n.); carrying trade, the trade or business of carrying goods, esp. over sea between different countries.
1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi 570 Demands made upon their [boats'] *carrying capacity. 1930L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs vii. 151 Hoare.., by ploughing, had raised the carrying capacity [of the station] to over 30,000 sheep in 1890. 1958Geogr. Rev. XLVIII. 5 By relating actual to potential use the capability of the land to support population—that is, its ‘carrying capacity’—can be measured.
1880Queen 13 Mar. (Advt.), Invalid furniture..*carrying chairs, {pstlg}2. 16s. 6d. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 129/2 The Chinese mandarin..when seated proudly in his fancy carrying-chair. 1905Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 16/3 The carrying-chair used by Leo XIII.
1887Manch. Guard. 2 Apr. 7 Business of a carrying corporation.
1689in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1861) 4th Ser. V. 221 Then we marched down to..several of the *carrying-places. 1786W. Grayson in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) IV. 133 The navigable waters and the carrying-places between them are made common highways. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. liii. 124 The shortest carrying-place from the Kennebec to the Dead River.
1878Huxley Physiogr. 133 If a river has a steep bed it generally possesses great *carrying power.
1776Adam Smith W.N. I. ii. v. 377 The coal trade..employs more shipping than all the *carrying trade of England. 1878F. Williams Midl. Railw. 157 A monopoly of the carrying trade of the district.
c1440Promp. Parv. 62 *Caryynge vesselle, or instrument of caryynge.
¶ Examples of the passage of the vbl. n. into a gerund, and its subsequent apparent use as a passive pple., through omission of preceding preposition a, as in ‘the ark was a building’.
1684J. Peter's Siege of Vienna 4 The Fortifications..which were vigorously carrying on by Count Staremberg. 1736Butler Anal. ii. iv. 186 A mysterious Oeconomy, which has been carrying on from the Time the World came into, etc. 1742Jarvis Quix. i. iii. viii. (heading) Several unfortunate persons, who were carrying, much against their wills, to a place they did not like. 1777Sheridan Trip Scarb. ii. i, I met a wounded peer carrying off. 1816Jane Austen Emma ii. xviii. 266 Tea was carrying round. 1849Grote Greece (1862) V. lxi. 338 The operations now carrying on in Chios.
▪ II. ˈcarrying, ppl. a.
1. a. That carries: see carry v.
1627Feltham Resolves i. liii, The carrying stream is greater, than the bringing one. 1887Scotsman 19 Mar., Fourteen high-class weight-carrying hunters.
b. Of sound: far-reaching, penetrating. Cf. carry v. 9 c.
1893Yonge & Coleridge Strolling Players ii. 9 A small, slight girl..sending her clear, sweet ‘carrying’ voice before her. 1932Punch 6 Jan. 14/1 My offices are just above and you have a carrying voice. I am not known as Towser to the staff. 1940Wodehouse Eggs, Beans & Crumpets 156 Beamish's voice is of a robust and carrying timbre.
2. Special combinations: carrying comb Spinning (see quots.); carrying party Mil., a party detailed to carry or bring up supplies.
1866Brit. Pat. 1123 5 In Figure 6 an arrangement is shown for obtaining motion to the parts from a column in the centre of the main circle of *carrying combs. 1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 94 The carrying-comb carries off the wool from between its two plates. 1889Burnley Wool & Woolcombing 269 The carrying comb advances in as near as possible a perpendicular position close to the nipper mouth and takes off the tuft of fibres.
1884Instr. Mil. Engin. (H.M.S.O.) (ed. 3) I. ii. 109 A certain number..will be told off as *carrying party. They will be provided with bags of hay, shavings, wool, &c., boards, fascines. 1928Blunden Undertones of War ix. 95 A carrying-party from another battalion was to meet me in Hamel. |