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单词 corning
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corningn.

Brit. /ˈkɔːnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkɔrnɪŋ/
Etymology: < corn v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action or process of granulation.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > becoming or making granular
corning1562
granulation1617
kerning1669
granulatinga1793
1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers f. 28, in tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre The maner of cornyng all sortes of pouder.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 94 During the time of its [sc. salt's] corning they generally slacken their fire.
1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) at Powder There are two sorts of it; the one call'd Serpentine, which is in Dust without corning, the other Corn-Powder.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 765 The cake produced by the action of the stones is ready for graining or corning.
2. Pickling with salt; salting.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving with salt
saltinga1300
powderinga1400
corning1655
saliture1657
rousing1667
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > [noun] > seasoning with salt
corning1655
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xiii. 117 Each of them need first a little corning with salt.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. C6v Each of them needs first a little corning with salt.
3. The growing or cultivation of corn. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > grain
corning1652
wheat-laya1722
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved To Rdr. sig. C3v 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. dialect. Obsolete.
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a1806 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (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.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as corning-machine, corning-mill.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > explosives
powder-mill1645
corning-mill1794
shot-tower1835
hill1897
charge-house1900
1794 Ann. Reg. 42 The explosion of the corning-mill was felt at the parsonage house.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 313 The old corning machine consisted of a large revolving rectangular wooden frame, etc.
C2.
corning-house n. the part of a powder-mill where the granulating is done.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > explosives > part of
corning-house1667
1667 Hist. Making Gunpowder in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 281 From the Mill the Powder is brought to the Corning-house.
1884 Edinb. Rev. July 36 A large magazine and corning-house.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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