dippingn.
/ˈdɪpɪŋ/ 1. The action of dip v. in various senses.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > [noun] > an instance of
dippingc1440
dip1598
dunk1932
dunking1933
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > dipping or plunging into liquid
submersion?a1425
dippingc1440
indippinga1564
ducking1581
diving1614
immersion1658
plout1705
souse1793
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > [noun]
pocket-picking1662
palmistry1711
pickpocketing1742
filing-lay1743
pickpocketry1756
buzzing1819
fogle drawing1823
fogle hunting1823
pickpocketism1830
cly-faking1862
dipping1882
prat-digging1908
whizz1925
whizzing1925
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 121/2 Dyppynge yn lycore, intinctio.
1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus sig. Eev He knoweth not what baptisme is..nor what the dyppyng in the water doth betoken.
1655 Bp. J. Taylor Vnum Necessarium v. §4 (R.) That which is dyed with many dippings is in grain, and can very hardly be washed out.
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 434 Nice Observations of the Variations and Dippings of the Needle, in different Places.
1719 J. T. Philipps tr. B. Ziegenbalg Thirty-four Confer. 218 I ask'd them, how daily Dipping and Plunging did avail them?
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 253 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the student..but only a casual dipping here and there.
1867 J. Ker Lett. (1890) 33 From any little dippings of conversation I had among the people.
1870 R. Pumpelly Across Amer. & Asia i. 1 The woman a very hag, ever following the disgusting habit of dipping—filling the air, and covering her clothes with snuff.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 705/1 Dipping, 1. The process of brightening ornamental brass-work..The work is..Dipped in a bath of pure nitrous acid for an instant.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. v. vi. §3. 348 The tackle for dipping is much more simple than that employed in whipping.
1882 Standard 2 Sept. 6/4 The Prisoner said she had only had a month for ‘dipping’ (picking pockets).
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 22 Improved Mast to do away with Dipping of Lug.
2. concrete.
a. A liquid preparation in which things are dipped for any purpose: a wash for sheep; dubbing for leather (Scottish).
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Dipping, the name given to a composition of boiled oil and grease, used by curriers for softening leather, and making it more fit for resisting dampness.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Dipping, a strong poisonous liquor, for dipping sheep, to kill vermin, and to prevent the scab.
b. A grade of turpentine. (Cf. dip n.1 8b.) U.S.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other vegetable materials > plant resin > [noun] > oleoresins from coniferous trees
pitcheOE
turpentine1322
alkitranc1400
cedriac1420
perrosin?a1425
pitch-rosinc1450
terebinth1483
alchitrean1562
frankincense1577
Venice turpentine1577
terebinthine1578
Venetian turpentine1598
Burgundy pitch1678
Strasbourg turpentine1683
terebinthina1693
Scio turpentine1710
rhinehurst1724
Canada balsam1754
Canada balsam1754
Canada turpentine1762
galipot1791
Canada pitch1831
dipping1832
pine gum1853
dip1856
scrape1856
virgin dip1856
pinol1889
1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 232 The turpentine thus procured is the best, and is called pure dipping.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. Chiefly in reference to technical processes.
dipping apparatus n.
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1841 Awards Highl. & Agric. Soc. Scotland To Mr. Thomas Bigg, London, for a Sheep Dipping Apparatus.
dipping-bath n.
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1894 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 41 3 Procure a glass vertical dipping bath with a glass dipper.
dipping-house n.
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1893 Labour Commission Gloss. Dipping House, the part of the factory in which the operation of dipping..is carried on. Dipping House Women, are the women and girls in the potting industry who clean the ware after it has been dipped and become dry.
dipping-ladle n.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dipping-ladle, a metal ladle for taking boiling pitch from the cauldron.
dipping-liquid n.
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c1865 G. Gore in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 216/1 He will require several..pans, one containing nitric acid, another filled with ‘dipping’ liquid.
dipping-machine n.
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1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 145 The material best adapted for making the tub of a dipping machine is concrete.
dipping-net n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > net on pole
pout net1443
sleeching-net1665
stick net1678
scoop-net1792
shoulder net1793
skimming net1806
stoop-net1806
dip-net1858
pole net1858
scoop1865
dipping-net1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dipping-net, a small net used for taking shad and other fish out of the water.
dipping-pan n.
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 705/1 Dipping-pan (Stereotyping), a square, cast-iron tray in which the floating-plate and plaster-cast are placed for obtaining a stereo~type cast.
dipping-process n.
dipping-room n.
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1875 Guide Royal Porcelain Wks. 17 From the dipping room the ware is brought into the drying stove.
dipping-tank n.
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1903 Daily Chron. 10 Feb. 6/4 The molten spelter, with which the dipping tanks were filled ready for the day's work.
dipping-trough n.
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1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 145 On a sheep farm the dipping-trough should be always the landlord's property, and a fixture.
dipping-tub n.
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1853 Catal. Royal Agric. Soc. Show 1 Sheep Dipping Apparatus..It consists of a dipping-tub, a draining-vessel, and an inclined plane.
dipping-tube n.
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1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Dipping-tube, a fine glass tube used to collect a small quantity of liquid or some solid matter in a liquid, for examination under the microscope.
dipping-vat n.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 260/1 Dipping vat, the trough containing fine glazing slip in which biscuit ware is dipped to be covered with the material which, baked on, forms glaze.
dipping-vessel n.
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c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 93/2 The tallow is kept in the dipping-vessel, at a temperature just over the point of solidification.
dipping-works n.
b. Also Nautical (cf. dip v. 6).
dipping-line n.
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1886 J. M. Caulfeild Seamanship Notes 1 Work dipping-line and hoist sail.
dipping-lug n.
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1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. 170 Sling a dipping lug ⅓ from the foremost yard-arm.
dipping-mark n.
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c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 7 How would you dip a ‘lug’? Lower the halyards to the dipping mark.
C2. † dipping-place n. Obsolete a baptistery.
dipping-frame n. a frame used in dipping tallow candles, and in dyeing.
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > baptistry > [noun]
baptistery1460
dipping-place1616
1616 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Payd vnto a carpenter for making of a depping place xvjd.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 374 In this parish [is] the Ana~baptist dipping-place.
dipping-shell n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > suborder Tectibranchiata > order Inferobranchiata > member of family Bullidae or genus Bulla
dipping-shell1712
dipper1776
dipping-snail1776
1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 352 A sort of Diping Shell, very common on the Shoars of Jamaica and Barbadoes.
dipping-snail n. = dipper n. 4.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > suborder Tectibranchiata > order Inferobranchiata > member of family Bullidae or genus Bulla
dipping-shell1712
dipper1776
dipping-snail1776
1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 174 The sixth family is the nuces, seu bullæ; commonly called the pewits eggs, or dipping snails, but which I shall henceforward call dippers, or seanuts.
dipping-well n. the receptacle in front of an isobath inkstand.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > containers for ink
inkhorn1382
inkpot1553
ink-well1875
dipping-well1889
ink-slab1890
ink cartridge1955
1889 Durham Univ. Jrnl. 196 It..has a small dipping-well in which the ink is always at the same height.
dipping-wheel n. U.S. a wheel consisting of revolving buckets or nets set in a river for catching fish.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 260/1 Dipping wheel, a contrivance used in Southern rivers to meet local demand for fish. It is set in the stream so as to be turned by the current, and has a number of dip-nets which raise the fish and tumble them out at the axis in the manner of the scoop-wheel.
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dipping sauce n. Cookery a sauce served as a dip to accompany a meal or dish; cf. dip n.1 9c.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun]
sauce1340
dressing1504
embamma1623
ragout1653
dipa1825
dipping sauce1948
1948 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 30 July The word ‘dope’ was borrowed..from the Dutch word doop, ‘a dipping sauce’.
1974 Times 14 Dec. 10/7 Tempura..with a dipping sauce on the side.
2002 Nation's Restaurant News 3 June 35 (caption) Chicken fingers with two special dipping sauces.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dippingadj.
That dips, in various senses: see the verb. spec. Of the beams of headlights: lowered or capable of being lowered (cf. dip v. 6d).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [adjective]
descendantc1429
downwith1488
downward1552
vailinga1639
down1642
descending1700
dipping1817
downcoming1922
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [adjective] > type of headlamps > dipped or undipped > capable of being
dipping1922
1817 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Mariner (rev. ed.) i, in Sibylline Leaves 5 With sloping masts and dipping prow.
a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. xvii. 176 With formal dipping curtseys the ladies separated.
1869 J. Ingelow Raven in White Chine vi With a crimson hue The dipping sun endowed that silver flood.
1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods i. iii. 4 My dipping paddle scarcely shakes The berry in the bramble-brakes.
1922 Motor 7 Nov. 744/2 (caption) Duco dipping headlights.
1957 Act 5 & 6 Eliz. II c. 51 §3 No light shown by a vehicle, other than a dipping headlight, shall be moved by swivelling, deflecting or otherwise while the vehicle is in motion.
Derivatives
dippingly adv. in a dipping way.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [adverb] > dipping
dippingly1852
1852 G. W. Curtis Lotos-eating 67 The summer-bird of a traveller who skims up the Hudson dippingly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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