cuppingn.
/ˈkʌpɪŋ/ 1. Surgery. The operation of drawing blood by scarifying the skin and applying a ‘cup’ or cupping-glass the air in which is rarefied by heat or otherwise. (Also called distinctively wet cupping.) dry cupping: the application of a cupping-glass without scarification, as a counter-irritant.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun] > cupping
ventosing1386
boxing?c1425
ventosityc1485
cupping1519
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria iv. f. 40 Some do cures..with launsynge,..boxynge, and cuppynge.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 311 Of such sort is dry Cupping.
1886 H. Van Laun Gil Blas II. vii. xvi. 430 This..he attributed..to the cuppings which he had had the honour of applying.
2. The drinking of intoxicating liquor; a drinking-bout. archaic. Cf. cup n. 10, cup v. 2.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor
bottle1593
potting1594
cupping1614
bubbing1665
dram-drinking1772
dramminga1790
suction1817
bibation1830
bibbery1831
poculation1837
smiling1858
nipping1880
bibulation1882
liquidation1889
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout
cups1406
drinking?1518
banquet1535
Bacchanal1536
pot-revel1577
compotation1593
rouse1604
Bacchanalia1633
potmealc1639
bout1670
drinking-bout1673
carouse1690
carousal1765
drunk1779
bouse1786
toot1790
set-to1808
spree1811
fuddlea1813
screed1815
bust1834
lush1841
bender1846
bat1848
buster1848
burst1849
soak1851
binge1854
bumming1860
bust-out1861
bum1863
booze1864
drink1865
ran-tan1866
cupping1868
crawl1877
hellbender1877
break-away1885
periodical1886
jag1894
booze-up1897
slopping-up1899
souse1903
pub crawl1915
blind1917
beer-up1919
periodic1920
scoot1924
brannigan1927
rumba1934
boozeroo1943
sesh1943
session1943
piss-up1950
pink-eye1958
binge drinking1964
1614 T. Adams Dis. Soule 28 The former is not more thirsty after his cupping, then the latter is hungry after his deuouring.
1647 Maids Petition 3 To which stream of iniquity we may be a convenient stop, to dam up the[i]re overflowing cupping.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. iv. 14 No more wilfulness and waste, Cuppings, carousings.
3.
a. The formation of a cup or concavity; a concavity thus formed. spec. in Metallurgy, the process of forming a depression in sheet metal by forcing a plunger into it when it is laced over a die, used either to fabricate articles or as a test of the ductility of the metal; so cupping test.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > pressing or drawing
presswork1896
pressworking1896
cupping1921
extrusion1921
extruding1930
stretch forming1951
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > testing
assayc1386
toucha1450
say1567
essay1668
assaying1728
parting assay1758
van1778
docimasy1803
touching1908
heat tinting1910
cupping1921
Magnaflux1935
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > testing > specific test
acid test1759
Wöhler test1911
cupping test1927
1893 in N.E.D.
1921 Jrnl. Inst. Metals 25 441 A ductility testing machine is described in which the direct pressure necessary to distort the material is measured. The pressure to cause the cupping is weighed directly by means of a confined liquid and a gauge.
1927 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 115 926 (title) A cupping test for determining qualities of thin metal sheets.
1964 E. Gregory & E. N. Simons Steel Working Processes v. 130 Cupping is applied to such parts as containers, brake drums, dishes, pans, trays, beakers, etc.
b. Metallurgy. Cuppiness; also, the flaws present in cuppy wire.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > qualities of metals > [noun] > imperfections > weakness from internal cavities
cupping1925
cuppiness1927
1925 A. T. Adam Wire-drawing x. 199 Two examples of segregation, one in a thick mild steel bar and the other in a wire, both of which resulted in cupping, may be given.
1949 R. T. Rolfe Dict. Metallogr. (ed. 2) 65 Cuppiness or cupping...is due to excessive cold working before further annealing, the exterior skin..being..enabled to withstand a much greater deformation than the unsupported interior metal, in which failure first occurs.
1952 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 170 223/1 The rupturing of the segregate bands is analogous to the well-known ‘cupping’ in segregated cold-drawn wire.
1968 R. N. Parkins Mech. Treatm. Metals iv. 245 If too large a reduction is attempted, the wire may break or develop internal cracks associated with localized necking and referred to as cupping.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as (in sense 1) cupping-apparatus, cupping-horn, cupping-instrument, cupping-vessel; cupping-glass n.
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1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iv. 80 Your lower limbs..are sucked up by two cupping vessels.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 659/1 Ancient cupping-horns, similar to those used through the East at the present time..Cupping-instruments are described by Hippocrates.
C2. † cupping-house n. Obsolete a drinking-house, tavern.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house
houseOE
tavern1297
tavern-housea1400
sunc1400
tap-house1500
tippling-housea1549
innsc1550
bousing-inn1575
ivy-bush1576
osteria1580
ordinary1590
caback1591
taberna1593
bousing-house1594
pothouse1598
red lattice1604
cupping-house1615
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Wirtshaus1650
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gaming ordinary1667
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shop1695
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dram-shop1725
gill house1728
rum shop1738
buvette1753
dram-house1753
grog-shop1790
wine-vault1791
pub1800
pulperia1818
pulqueria1822
potation-shop1823
rum hole1825
Wirtschaft1834
drunkery1836
pot shop1837
drinkery1840
rum mill1844
khazi1846
beer-shop1848
boozer1895
rub-a-dub1898
Weinstube1899
rubbity-dub1905
peg house1922
rub-a-dub-dub1932
rubbity1941
Stube1946
superpub1964
1615 T. Adams Mystical Bedlam ii. 49 A cupping-house, a vaulting-house, a gaming-house share their meanes, liues, soules.
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Originally U.S. The action or an instance of judging the quality of coffee by tasting it; a coffee tasting. Frequently attributive.
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1922 W. H. Ukers All about Coffee 158/1 It is possible to improve the cupping qualities of a coffee to a surprising degree.
1929 Havre (Montana) Daily News 30 Aug. 3 (caption) Individual cups of coffee are..submitted..for tasting at the ‘cupping table’.
1962 Chicago Defender 18 Apr. 9/5 Coffee sampling is crucial. This involves a sensitive procedure known as ‘cupping’.
1992 Vancouver Oct. 84/1 It seems more than a little twee to sit down at a formal coffee tasting—known as a ‘cupping’—and begin sniffing, shlurping and spitting a dozen religiously prepared cups of coffee as if they were so much fine Burgundy.
1995 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 3 Apr. d2 [The master roaster] will consult on bean selection, weekly cuppings..and the development of new blends.
2002 Observer 8 Sept. (Food Monthly Suppl.) 20/4 [They] have joined a programme to allow farmers to taste their own coffee, learn cupping skills.
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