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▪ I. ˈslacking, vbl. n.
[f. slack v.]
The action of the vb., in various senses.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 287 Our countree..to be desolated through our slouthfulnesse or slackyng. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 26/1 They wanted their horssemen which were yet behind, & through slacking of time could not come to land. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 135 Sith there is no slacking of Gods kindnes, why should there be any intermission of our duty? 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 488 The other Ship..was hindred by the slacking of the wind. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 292 With Quick⁓lime, which slacking will make it as hard as a Stone. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 175 The slacking of lime completely is a most important operation. 1905H. A. Vachell The Hill ix. 189 How about work, eh? Lot o' slacking last term.
attrib.1855J. R. Leifchild Cornwall 222 The water of the slacking pits and buddles.
▪ II. ˈslacking, ppl. a.
[f. as prec.]
That slacks, in senses of the vb.
a1625Nomenclator Navalis 126 When it is slacking water. 1811A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (1818) 459 A white brittle substance, having the peculiar odour of slacking quick-lime. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 366 Many watch The ebbing motions of the slacking sea. 1882U.S. Rep. Prec. Met. 642 It resists the solvent and slacking action of water. |