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corning, vbl. n.|ˈkɔːnɪŋ|
[f. corn v. + -ing1.]
1. The action or process of granulation.
1560Whitehorne Ord. Souldiers (1573) 28 a, The maner of corning all sortes of pouder. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 94 During the time of its [salt's] corning they generally slacken their fire. 1711[see corn-powder]. 1875Ure Dict. Arts II. 765 The cake produced by the action of the stones is ready for graining or corning.
2. Pickling with salt; salting.
1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improvem. (1746) 204 Each of them need first a little corning with salt. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd.
†3. The growing or cultivation of corn. Obs.
1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. To Rdr., All which are three staple Advantages of the Nation, and will hold hands with Tillage, Corning, Trade, and Merchandize.
†4. The practice of begging corn on St. Thomas's day. dial. Obs.
a1806Brand Pop. Ant. (1870) I. 246 There is a custom in Warwickshire for the poor, on St. Thomas's Day, to go with a bag to beg corn of the farmers, which they call going a-corning.
5. attrib. and Comb., as corning-machine, corning-mill; corning-house, the part of a powder-mill where the granulating is done.
1667Hist. Gunpowder in Sprat Hist. R. Soc. (1702) 281 From the Mill the Powder is brought to the Corning-house. 1794Ann. Reg. 42 The explosion of the corning-mill was felt at the parsonage house. 1881Greener Gun 313 The old corning machine consisted of a large revolving rectangular wooden frame, etc. 1884Edin. Rev. July 36 A large magazine and corning-house. |