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▪ I. stabbing, vbl. n.|ˈstæbɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. a. The action or an act of stab v. in various senses.
1375Barbour Bruce xvii. 785 (Edinb. MS.) Off stabing, [Camb. MS. staffing], stoking, and striking Thar maid thai sturdy defending. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. 6534 For his hors rycht weill armyt was, That he þare stabyng dred weill les. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iv. 6 He's a Soldier, and for me to say a Souldier lyes, 'tis stabbing. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 90, I was obliged to perform the operation of stabbing in three several parts of the belly before the ox was relieved. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 193 This statute was made on account of the frequent quarrels and stabbings with short daggers.
b. attrib. stabbing board Oil Industry (see quot. 1932).
1837W. B. Adams Carriages 152 An awl called a *stabbing awl.
1932Amer. Speech VII. 271 *Stabbing-board, a board in the derrick at the height of one joint, from which the derrick man stabs pipe. 1974R. D. Langenkamp Handbk. Oil Industry Terms & Phrases 126 The derrick man stands on the stabbing board and assists in guiding the threaded end of the casing into the collar of the preceding joint that is hanging in the slips in the rotary table.
1894–5Kipling 2nd Jungle Bk. 155 Kadlu..crossed the hut for his *stabbing-harpoon.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Stabbing-machine, a machine for perforating a pile of folded and gathered signatures for the insertion of the stitching-thread.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Stabbing-press. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Stabbing-press, a bookbinder's press, in which pointed rods are driven through the folded sheets near the back, to stitch them together.
1892Rider Haggard Nada 33 Armed with the short *stabbing-spear.
†2. Dicing. (See quot.) Obs.
1680Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 12 Lastly, by Stabbing, that is, having a Smooth Box, and small in the bottom, you drop in both your Dice in such manner as you would have them sticking therein by reason of its narrowness [etc.].
▪ II. stabbing, ppl. a.|ˈstæbɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
1. Of a weapon: That stabs.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 748 They often giue vs (Souldiers) the Lye, but wee pay them for it with stamped Coyne, not stabbing Steele. 1813Scott Rokeby vi. xxxiii, But still his struggling force he rears, 'Gainst hacking brands and stabbing spears.
b. fig.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iv. iv, Come, you'le never leave your stabbing similes. 1682Owtram Serm. 403 That's a black and stabbing thought. a1704T. Brown Lett. to Gentl. & Ladies Wks. 1709 III. ii. 107, I dare trust my self no longer with such stabbing Ideas. 1745E. Haywood Female Spect. No. 13 (1748) III. 15 Instead of reasoning with Zimene, and perswading her to moderation in so stabbing a circumstance.
2. Of pain: Sharp and sudden, characterized by twinges comparable to the effect of a stab.
1763Colebrook in Phil. Trans. LIII. 347 She complained of most excruciating stabbing pains in both breasts. 1896M. Beaumont Joan Seaton 175 Unconscious of the stabbing pain in his foot.
Hence ˈstabbingly adv.
1673S. Parker Reproof Reh. Transp. 287 This intimation..is as stabbingly suggested as the story of Sardanapalus. |