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▪ I. racing, vbl. n.1|ˈreɪsɪŋ|
[f. race n.1 or v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of race v.1 in its various senses.
1680Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xxxv. Of Racing. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Racing, the riding heats for a plate or other premium. 1808Scott Marm. v. xii, There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee. 1832Lieder Encycl. Amer. X. 474/1 Subsequent sovereigns have also encouraged racing. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocracy Wks. (Bohn) II. 86 Yet gaming, racing, drinking,..bring them down. 1901Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 221/2 The Turbinia has been run..in almost all states of the sea, and on no occasion has the slightest symptom of racing occurred. 1912G. Greenhill Dynamics of Mech. Flight v. 106 Racing of the screw is due chiefly to variation of axial flow. 1980G. M. Fraser Mr American xviii. 336 Pip's method of travel was..constant racing of the engine.
2. attrib. and Comb., (some functionally indistinguishable from racing used as ppl. adj.) as racing bicycle, racing-boat, racing canoe, racing car, racing change (change n. 1 g), racing club, racing colt, racing correspondent, racing cycle, racing cyclist, racing driver, racing eight, racing establishment, racing-gig, racing-glass, racing guide, racing jacket, racing man, racing motor-car, racing motorist, racing outrigger, racing pace, racing page, racing-path, racing place, racing result, racing rig, racing saddle, racing season, racing stable, racing stud, racing-track, racing-whip, racing world, racing yacht; racing-like, racing-tyred adjs.; † racing-bell, a small spherical bell formerly given as a prize in a horse-race (see bell n.1 7); Racing Calendar, a yearly publication giving particulars of horse-races run or to be run; racing colours, the colours (colour, color n. 6 a) by which an owner's racehorses are identified; racing demon (see demon 2 f); racing dope U.S., information about races contained in a dope-sheet (see dope n. 5); racing flag Naut. (see quot. 1961); racing game = race-game s.v. race n.1 11 b; † racing-loser, one who loses in or by horse-racing; racing pigeon, a homing pigeon taking part in competitions to complete a specific journey as quickly as possible; racing-plate (see quot.); racing-tail, the tail of natural length worn by race-horses; hence racing-tailed adj.
1910Encycl. Brit. III. 915/1 Wood rims are used on *racing bicycles. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. of Schoolchildren x. 191 Who's teacher's pet boy and was given a racing bicycle?
1850Kingsley Alton Locke xii, I stood..gazing across the river, heedless of the *racing-boats. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. 68 The flooring, lines, and keel of a racing boat.
1709–(title) The *Racing Calendar. 1838De Quincey Wks. 1863 XV. 114 He would suppose himself reading the ‘Racing Calendar’.
1876*Racing-canoe [see long-spooned s.v. long a.1 16]. 1932Man May 106 The coffin is placed in a large racing canoe.
1909*Racing car [see power producer s.v. power n.1 18]. 1977M. Kenyon Rapist iv. 44 He said he..had been an important racing car driver.
1959I. Fleming Goldfinger vii. 86 James Bond flung the DB III through the last mile of straight and did a *racing change down into third.
1840Whyte Hist. Turf I. 191 Members of a *racing or fox-hunting club.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 302/2 About seven days required to execute orders for *Racing Colours. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions i. v. 196 She handed a folded twenty⁓dollar bill to a boy wearing her racing colors. 1961A. Clarke Later Poems 87 At Maynooth, instead of skulls, His racing colours were displayed.
1828Darvill Treat. Race horse 454 On breaking *racing colts.
1961E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender iii. ii. 240 His brief experience as a *racing correspondent seemed irrelevant to the zeitgeist. 1976‘J. Welcome’ Grand National i. 11 That is Andrew Mostyn, our chief racing correspondent.
1976Eastern Even. News (Norwich) 22 Dec. 11/3 (Advt.), *Racing cycles at discount prices.
1974Times 29 Oct. 17/4 Scores of club *racing cyclists.
1945N. Mitford Pursuit of Love ix. 74 The Kroesigs obviously longed for bridge, and did not seem to care so much for *racing demon when it was offered as a substitute. 1977Times 24 Dec. 10/2 Try racing demon for the party card game if you have a large table and fast-playing, shouting screaming players.
1931F. L. Allen Only Yesterday iv. 81 Workmen forgot to be class-conscious as they..studied the *racing dope about Morvich.
1961Daily Tel. 21 May 10, I used to be a *racing driver. 1977‘D. Cory’ Bennett iii. 88 Shop girls identify themselves with film stars, bank clerks with racing drivers.
1866‘Argonaut’ Rowing & Training 12 Length of boat (*Racing eight) 56 feet.
1811J. Steele Let. 29 Jan. in Papers (1924) II. 649 There is nothing..which wd. afford me greater pleasure than to see a respectable *racing establishment at this place. 1828Darvill Treat. Race horse 6 The home stables of a large public racing establishment.
1860‘Vanderdecken’ Yarns 135 Cut the *racing flag clear, and send a hand aloft to lash it to the stump as a signal that you'll fight to the last. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 167 Racing flag, a private flag hoisted when racing, instead of the burgee; it is hauled down only on retiring, or when a race is completed.
1860C. M. Yonge Hopes & Fears I. i. v. 123 She beheld his sister..at the *racing game... Honor waited, however, till the little white horseman had reached the goal. 1890― More Bywords 154 The ‘racing game’,..which was now spread on the dining⁓table, with all the young people playing in high glee.
1884Harper's Mag. Feb. 344/1 A long *racing-gig swept by us.
1882Graphic 25 Oct. 437/3 Putting off the shibboleth of the turf with his *racing-glasses.
1909A. L. Bruce Bridge-Fiend 12 A peppery, red-faced old gentleman, who was reading a *racing-guide..was then appealed to.
1833New Sporting Mag. V. 398 The *racing jacket, with fancy buttons and velvet collar.
Ibid. 132 The *racing-like style in which he did his work. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 290 Sound, springy, racing-like turf.
1680Cotton Compleat Gamester (ed. 2) xxxv. 148 The woful experience of too many *Racing-losers.
1828Darvill Treat. Race horse 218 *Racing men endeavour..to keep the secrets of their stables.
1909Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 5/1 Fewer accidents have happened to aviators in proportion to their numbers than to *racing-motor-car drivers in the same period.
1906Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 347/1 The trophy which is the prize for which *racing-motorists compete.
1866‘Argonaut’ Rowing & Training 56 A regular *racing outrigger may be substituted for the tub.
1828Darvill Treat. Race horse 172 To come a long length at a *racing pace.
1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xiv. 156, I went to rest every afternoon with..the *racing page of the daily paper. 1978Islands (N.Z.) Aug. 78, I got the paper of course. For the racing page really.
1884Longm. Mag. Mar. 484 The feats accomplished..on the *racing-path.
1910A. H. Osman Pigeon Bk. xiii. 148 It is impossible to say what breeds have and have not been used to ‘make’ the *racing pigeon. 1933Discovery Nov. 344/1 Racing and homing pigeons are often captured. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 26 Jan. 4/2 Demand is expected to broaden as the racing-pigeon season approaches. 1977Wandsworth Borough News 16 Sept. 15/5 Literally rescued from the teeth of a predatory cat, a blue racing pigeon now awaits a claimant at the home of Mr. I. A. McWilliam.
1741–3Pococke Descr. East I. 10 The *racing place, call'd the Hippodromus.
1958J. Hislop From Start to Finish 174 *Racing-plate, a light shoe (usually made of some form of aluminium) with which horses are shod when they race.
1926*Racing result [see bedtime story s.v. bedtime]. 1976‘J. Welcome’ Grand National ii. 27 He turned on the radio to get the racing results.
1906Conrad Mirror of Sea viii. 39 Of those three varieties of fore-and-aft rig, the cutter—the *racing rig par excellence—is of an appearance the most imposing.
1828Darvill Treat. Race horse 22 Racks and pegs for the *racing saddles.
1840Whyte Hist. Turf II. 600 The conclusion of the *racing season.
1828Darvill Treat. Race horse p. v, Any one who has not been brought up in *racing stables. 1981E. Ward Baltic Emerald xxiv. 189 A racing stable with high pasturelands for gallops.
1828T. Creevey Let. in Creevey Papers (1963) xii. 241 We started about 3 for Petworth..Sefton's object being to see Lord Egremont's *Racing Stud before dinner. 1840Whyte Hist. Turf I. 36 Oliver Cromwell..kept a racing stud. 1863Ouida Held in Bondage (1870) 51 She will cost..more than a racing stud.
1843Thackeray Jérôme Paturot 361 A great floundering *racing-tailed horse.
1913O.E.D. s.v. Track sb. 6 b, *Racing⁓track. 1917[see morning n. 7 ¶ ]. 1929W. E. Collinson Spoken Eng. 72 They've built a greyhound racing-track just near the house.
1891Pall Mall G. 29 Oct. 1/3 A Clincher *racing-tyred Humber safety.
1864Reader No. 97. 568/2 A *racing-whip he had brought.
1841‘Wildrake’ Cracks of the Day 212 The grand emporium of the year [1838] in the *racing world, was the Epsom Races.
1885Royal River xii. 338 The *racing yachts are clearing for action.
Add:[2.] racing form U. S. = form sheet s.v. *form n. 22.
1910S. P. Wilson Chicago by Gas Light 43 It is no uncommon sight to see the place crowded with men and women waiting for the ‘*racing form’ to appear hot from the printing press. 1930F. I. Anderson Bk. Murder iii. 66 A handsome fire laddie..lifted the basement blinds and sat down in Number 56 to study his morning racing forms. 1988Washington Post 14 Aug. b6/1 The National Weather Service provides the meteorological equivalent of the racing form.
▪ II. † ˈracing, vbl. n.2 Obs.
[f. race v.3]
The action of scratching, cutting, or scraping out.
1576Baker Gesner's Jewell of Health 8 b, A waxed threede was fastened about that place..for the strayghter and evener racing of the Glasse. 1592West 1st Pt. Symbolæogr. §56 C ij b, Ingrossed in paper or parchment, without blotting, racing, interlyning. 1633Hart Diet of Diseased iii. ix. 264 By meanes of scarification or racing of the skinne.
attrib.1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 8 Racing-knife, a small tool to race with. 1819[see race n.3].
▪ III. racing, ppl. a.|ˈreɪsɪŋ|
[f. race v.1 + -ing2.]
That races, in various senses of the vb.
1720Pope Iliad xxiii. 342 The Prizes..decreed To the brave Rulers of the racing Steed. 1811W. R. Spencer Poems 23 How swift from left and right, The racing fields and hills recede. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career xxxii, Levelling his telescope to sight the racing cutters. |