clayingn.
/ˈkleɪɪŋ/ The action of clay v.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > cladding or covering with other materials
claying?1523
mudding1632
sanding1670
sodding1688
fogging1704
slatinga1884
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > process in manufacture
clay1765
claying1822
striking-tache1830
potting1839
strike1847
touch proof1909
turbinage1909
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlvv Be well ware that thou breke nat thy graffe nother in ye clayeng nor, in the byndinge.
1822 Burrowes Cycl. X. 287/2 Four hundred of the [sugar] plantations of St. Domingo have the necessary apparatus for claying.
1875 Agric. Holdings Act 38 & 39 Vict. c. 92 §5 An improvement comprised in..clay-burning, claying of land, liming of land.
Compounds
claying-bar n. a cylindrical bar of iron for driving clay into a blast-hole so as to prevent the percolation of water.
claying-house n. the house or place in which sugar is clayed.
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1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 943 As this process lasts several weeks, the claying-house requires to have very considerable dimensions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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