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▪ I. slicing, vbl. n.1|ˈslaɪsɪŋ| [f. slice v.1] The action of the verb in various senses.
1580Hollyband Tres. Fr. Tong, Decoupure, a cutting, or slycing. 1611Cotgr., Hachement, a hacking, shredding, slicing. 1763Mills Pract. Husb. IV. 214 Grafting in the Rind, or Shoulder-grafting, likewise called slicing and packing. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair iv, Amelia went away, perhaps to superintend the slicing of the pine-apple. 1899Westm. Gaz. 22 Dec. 2/1, I am convinced that this habit of following after is responsible for much of the slicing and pulling [in golf]. attrib.1778[see slicer 2]. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arc. Regions II. 175 A man..sliced it..and then pushed it into an adjoining receptacle, called a ‘slicing cooler’. 1833Wauldby Farm Rep. 102 in Husb. III. (L.U.K.), A roller with slicing-knives attached to it. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 78 The slicing-wheel..is a disc of cast-iron. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2208/1 Slicing-machine. (Pottery.) ▪ II. † ˈslicing, vbl. n.2 Obs. [f. slice v.2] Muting.
1596Harington Metam. Ajax 31 Doe not you sometime..talke both of putting a heron to the mount, and then of his slicing? ▪ III. slicing, ppl. a.|ˈslaɪsɪŋ| [f. slice v.1] Cutting easily or cleanly.
1578H. Wotton Courtly Controv. 10 What Slicing blade doth cut my gale. 1590Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. ii, There sits imperious Death, Keeping his circuit by the slicing edge. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1638) 190 Three Coosel-bashes..with their slicing Semiters whipt off their heads. 1641Baker Chron., Edw. VI (1643) 72 The rest were..well furnished with..slicing swords broad and thin. 1896Crockett Grey Man v. 35 A fragment of a leather rein..cut across with a clean, slicing cut. Hence ˈslicingly adv. rare.
1598Florio, Sminutamente, mincingly, slicingly. |