fairingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈfɛːrɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfɛrɪŋ/

Forms: see fair n.² and -ing suffix¹; also Irish English 1900s– faireen, 1900s– fairin (northern).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fair n.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < fair n.² + -ing suffix¹.

British.

1. A present, souvenir, or other item given at or brought back from a fair. Now archaic.figurative in quot. 1631.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift brought from or given at a fair

fairing1574

market fair1776

1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 134 The Gentlemen [?1575 Gentlewomen] that did serue her [sc. the Empresse]..would vse their liberty in asking fairinges.

1589 J. Stockwood (title) A Bartholmew fairing for parentes.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre Prol. sig. A3 in Wks. II The Maker..hopes, to night To giue you for a Fayring, true delight.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 31 Aug. (1970) II. 166 Into Christ's Hospitall, and there Mr. Pickering bought them some fairings.

1773 R. Fergusson Poems 117 He'll..creish her loof Wi' what will buy her fairin, To chow that day.

1786 F. Burney Diary 8 Nov. (1842) III. 216 Presenting her one of my fairings.

1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 149 With kerchief full of fairings in her hand.

1883 Longman's Mag. Apr. 655 The lasses get their ‘fairing’ from the lads in gingerbread and nuts from the stalls.

1906 H. Fielding Soul of People xiii. 160 Down below the pagoda are many temporary stalls built, where you can buy all sorts of fairings.

1997 J. Jakeman Let there be Blood xxi. 219 He was at the fair that day—and he has a fairing—a rosette—in his buttonhole.

a. A present or gift of any kind, esp. one given by a lover. Also: a gift of money intended to be spent at a fair. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun]

givec888

lakeOE

presentc1230

giftc1275

garrison1297

benefit1377

beneficec1380

givinga1382

handsela1393

donativec1430

oblation1433

propine1448

presentationc1460

don1524

sportule1538

premie?1548

first penny1557

donation1577

exhibition1579

donary1582

fairing1584

merced1589

gifture1592

meed1613

recado1615

regalo1622

regale1649

dation1656

compliment1702

dashee1705

dash1788

cadeau1808

bestowment1837

potlatch1844

prez.1919

Harry Freeman's1925

pressie1933

1584 C. Robinson et al. Handefull Pleasant Delites (new ed.) sig. Aii (heading) A Nosegaie alwaies sweet, for Louers to send for Tokens, of loue, at Newyeres tide, or for fairings, as they in their minds shall be disposed to write.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 2 We shalbe rich ere we depart, Yf Fayrings come thus plentifully in.

1630 J. Penkethman tr. W. Lily (title) The fairest fairing for a schoole-bred sonne.

1668 S. Pepys Diary 17 Sept. (1976) IX. 309 I..did give her five guineas as a fairing.

1727 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 135 A jewel box which Mrs. Tillier desires you to accept as her fairing.

1740 T. Lediard German Spy (ed. 2) xxii. 193 She told me, she was going to the Fair, and hop'd I would give her something for a Fairing.

1826 M. R. Mitford in Monthly Mag. Jan. 14 To our little pet, Lizzy..she predicted a fairing.

1920 H. Campbell Island Folk Songs 18 I choiced my lass's fairing—A brooch wi' a cairngorm.

1960 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Explorer vi. 192 ‘An' a fairing for the nipper’, he said... ‘He wants to go to the fair,’ explained Robert, ‘but he hasn't any money’.

1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's 29 There were tea caddies, presents from everywhere, fairings, dresser-plates, crotcheted anti-mascassars and cushions.

b. Scottish and Irish English (northern). That which is deserved; a due reward or recompense, whether good or evil. Chiefly in to get one's fairing, to give (a person) his or her fairing. Cf. desert n.¹ 3. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill > get one's deserts

to sow the wind and reap the whirlwindc1384

to drink to one's oysters1470

to serve (a person) right1587

to get the wissel of one's groat1721

to get one's fairing1787

to get one's bitters1812

to get one's faring1846

come1896

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > deserve (well or ill) > give one his deserts

to serve (a person) right1587

to give (a person) his or her fairing1818

1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxx, in Poems (new ed.) 64 Niest time we meet, I'll wad a groat, He's got his fairin!

1818 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 161 Mackay will pit him down..he'll gi'e him his fairing.

1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. ii. iv. 262 ‘Ane o' them got his fairin.’

1830 J. Banim Denounced I. xii. 106 Punish him, Maud! pay him! give him his fairing!

1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Penny Wheep 21 Blaefaced afore the throne o' God He'll get his fairin' yet.

1999 J. Robertson Day O Judgement 19 Nae hotchin an nae yabberin nou, That aw mey lairn, baith wee an great, The fairins that tae each is due.

3. The action of going to the fair. Chiefly in to go a-fairing, to go fairing. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1838 United Service Jrnl. June 211 I went fairing, and got some gingerbread.

1885 J. F. Molloy Royalty Restored II. 218 Even her majesty was tempted on one occasion to go a-fairing.

1887 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 251 The fairing was done with shivers.

1904 D. Sladen Japan in Pictures v. 122/2 Some of this happy family go a-fairing or holidaying while the others carry on the business.

1922 Living Age 11 Nov. 366/2 Young man Catchieside, and if I go a-fairing, Who's declaring I'm too old for going?

a. A small gingerbread biscuit; a ginger nut. In early use: spec. one sold at a fair (cf. sense 1). Now usually in Cornish fairing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > other biscuits

dorcake14..

cracknelc1440

hard breada1500

crackling1598

Naples biscuit1650

gingerbread man1686

chocolate biscuit1702

biscotin1723

sponge biscuit1736

maple biscuita1753

butter biscuit1758

nut1775

Oliver biscuit1786

funeral biscuit1790

rock biscuit?1790

ratafia1801

finger biscuit1812

Savoy drop1816

lady's finger1818

snap1819

Abernethy1830

pretzel1831

wine-biscuit1834

gingersnap1838

captain's biscuit1843

lebkuchen1847

simnel1854

sugar cookie1854

peppernut1862

McClellan pie1863

Savoy ring1866

Brown George1867

beaten biscuit1876

digestive1876

Osborne1876

Bath Oliver1878

marie1878

boer biscuit1882

charcoal biscuit1885

biscotti1886

fairing1888

snickerdoodle1889

pfeffernuss1891

zwieback1894

Nice1895

Garibaldi biscuit1896

Oswegoc1900

squashed fly1900

amaretto1905

boerebeskuit1905

Romary1905

petit beurre1906

Oswego biscuit1907

soetkoekie1910

Oreo1912

custard cream1916

Anzac1923

sweet biscuit1929

langue de chat1931

Bourbon biscuit1932

Afghan1934

flapjack1935

Florentine1936

chocolate chip cookie1938

choc chip cookie1940

Toll House cookie1940

tuile1943

pizzelle1949

black and white1967

Romany Cream1970

papri1978

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Fairing, a peculiar kind of thin, brown cake sold at fairs, called by the better class ‘gingerbread nuts’.

1893 Yorks. Herald 14 Jan. (Suppl.) 4/6 The gilt ginger-bread ‘fairings’ which were common throughout the country..often had the large and small alphabets printed upon them.

1957 Times 12 Oct. 1/ From Cornwall. Genuine Cornish gingerbreads and Cornish fairings, made by Furniss of Truro for over 100 years.

1984 J. Grigson Brit. Cookery 35/2 Of the biscuits, my favourite is the Cornish fairing with its crackled top and brown spicy flavour.

2007 A. Kelley Bower Bird 170 She buys some fairings—Cornish biscuits.

b. A small Victorian porcelain ornament of a type originally sold at fairs, typically featuring human or animal figures and bearing a humorous or sentimental caption.

ΚΠ

1964 W. S. Bristowe (title) Victorian china fairings.

1972 Daily Tel. 4 Feb. 11/7 A fairing of two girls standing before a parson and saying ‘Please, Sir, what would you charge to christen my doll?’ went..for £140.

1999 B. Neels Good Wife 40 The fairing was small, a man and woman holding hands, crudely done, yet charming.

Compounds

General attributive and objective.

ΚΠ

1593 Passionate Morrice sig. I^v Honestie knowes what the fairing-monger will saye.

1790 F. Burney Diary Aug. (1842) V. 150 I placed one of my fairing work-baskets..on a table.

1801 G. Chipman Amer. Moralist 172 I produced our little fairing box, and begged him to accept the contents.

1882 C. Bell tr. G. M. Ebers Burgomaster's Wife xviii. 195 It was the whole of his fairing-money.

1902 W. G. Simms Captain J. Smith ix. 270 The settlement should have known all the life and bustle of a market-town in fairing time.

1998 S. Bagdade & A. Bagdade Warman's Eng. & Continental Pottery & Porcelain (ed. 3) 88/3 Fairing themes include courtship and marriage scenes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fairingn.²

Brit.

/ˈfɛːrɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfɛrɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fair v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < fair v. (compare sense 4 at that entry) + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action or process of smoothing the lines of a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle, typically in order to reduce drag; streamlining.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > specific procedures

furring1622

ceiling1627

spaling1805

fortifying1820

conversion1850

boot-topping1867

fairing1867

horning1879

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > construction and servicing aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > making streamlined

cleaning-up1922

fairing1927

streamlining1936

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 286 Fairing, sheering a ship in construction. Also, the draught of a ship.

1903 Marine Engin. Oct. 526/1 One large item of expense which should not be overlooked is that of ribbands and the fairing of the ship by carpenters.

1927 Daily Tel. 6 Sept. 11/3 The fairing of the wings into the fuselage.

2008 D. Danenberg Compl. Wooden Runabout Restoration Guide i. xii. 197/2 (caption) Some details..must be handcarved into the covering boards after fairing has been done.

b. A structure or part which serves to smooth the lines of a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle, typically in order to reduce drag; structures of this type collectively. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > structures to reduce drag or lift

fairing1936

spoiler1963

aerofoil1966

air dam1970

skirt1974

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > rocket > [noun] > types of rocket engine > fairing

fairing1964

skirt1964

1914 Aeronaut. Jrnl. Oct. 316 Fairing, a piece added to any structure to reduce its head resistance or drag.

1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 137 Fairing, usually made of thin sheet aluminium, wood, or a light construction of wood and fabric; and bent round detrimental surface in order to give it a ‘fair’ or ‘stream-like’ shape.

1936 Times 19 Oct. 8/4 The car, which has graceful curves and fairings to reduce wind-noise, costs £368.

1964 J. L. Nayler Dict. Astronautics 252 Skirt, the lower outer part of a rocket vehicle. It acts as a fairing to the rocket motor or booster.

1988 Zool. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 94 81 The skin fold may act as a fairing to streamline the eyeball.

2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 10 May 17/3 The amount of broken bits of motorcycle plastic and fairing was unbelievable, demonstrating the number of accidents they must have up there.

2. In extended use: the action, process, or result of smoothing the lines in a visual representation of something.

ΚΠ

1933 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 140 680 The friction results were obtained from Goodman's fig. 46..; a certain amount of cross plotting, and some approximate but slight ‘fairing’, was necessary.

1959 B. G. D. Salt in J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation 319 Movements in animation are generally ‘faired’...The term ‘to fair’ or ‘fairing’—an old craft word commonly used in the aircraft industry—is probably the most accurate available.

2008 P. Salvi et al. in F. Chen & B. Jüttler Adv. in Geom. Modeling & Processing i. 160 Figure 4 shows a curve before and after fairing.

Compounds

General attributive.

ΚΠ

1930 Daily Express 23 May 11/5 The fairing piece at the extreme end of the tail..was slightly damaged.

1934 Flight 25 Jan. 78 e/1 The section on lines will..apply equally well to a set of ‘fairing lines’ for an ordinary fairing drawing.

1972 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 1971 367/1 Ship surfaces..obtained by manual drafting techniques assisted by a fairing tool, the batten.

2000 Scootering Mar. (Scooter Trader Suppl.) 4/2 Vespa 50 Special, Primavera 125 engine,..fairing trim, crashbars backrack, Dexter tyres.

2007 J. Wu et al. in M. Gross & H. Pfister Point-based Graphics iv. 147 The typical discrete fairing methods for polygonal meshes..can be generalized.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fairing
释义	fairingn.¹ Brit. /ˈfɛːrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɛrɪŋ/ Forms: see fair n.² and -ing suffix¹; also Irish English 1900s– faireen, 1900s– fairin (northern). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fair n.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < fair n.² + -ing suffix¹. British. 1. A present, souvenir, or other item given at or brought back from a fair. Now archaic.figurative in quot. 1631. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift brought from or given at a fair fairing1574 market fair1776 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 134 The Gentlemen [?1575 Gentlewomen] that did serue her [sc. the Empresse]..would vse their liberty in asking fairinges. 1589 J. Stockwood (title) A Bartholmew fairing for parentes. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre Prol. sig. A3 in Wks. II The Maker..hopes, to night To giue you for a Fayring, true delight. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 31 Aug. (1970) II. 166 Into Christ's Hospitall, and there Mr. Pickering bought them some fairings. 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 117 He'll..creish her loof Wi' what will buy her fairin, To chow that day. 1786 F. Burney Diary 8 Nov. (1842) III. 216 Presenting her one of my fairings. 1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 149 With kerchief full of fairings in her hand. 1883 Longman's Mag. Apr. 655 The lasses get their ‘fairing’ from the lads in gingerbread and nuts from the stalls. 1906 H. Fielding Soul of People xiii. 160 Down below the pagoda are many temporary stalls built, where you can buy all sorts of fairings. 1997 J. Jakeman Let there be Blood xxi. 219 He was at the fair that day—and he has a fairing—a rosette—in his buttonhole. 2. a. A present or gift of any kind, esp. one given by a lover. Also: a gift of money intended to be spent at a fair. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] givec888 lakeOE presentc1230 giftc1275 garrison1297 benefit1377 beneficec1380 givinga1382 handsela1393 donativec1430 oblation1433 propine1448 presentationc1460 don1524 sportule1538 premie?1548 first penny1557 donation1577 exhibition1579 donary1582 fairing1584 merced1589 gifture1592 meed1613 recado1615 regalo1622 regale1649 dation1656 compliment1702 dashee1705 dash1788 cadeau1808 bestowment1837 potlatch1844 prez.1919 Harry Freeman's1925 pressie1933 1584 C. Robinson et al. Handefull Pleasant Delites (new ed.) sig. Aii (heading) A Nosegaie alwaies sweet, for Louers to send for Tokens, of loue, at Newyeres tide, or for fairings, as they in their minds shall be disposed to write. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 2 We shalbe rich ere we depart, Yf Fayrings come thus plentifully in. View more context for this quotation 1630 J. Penkethman tr. W. Lily (title) The fairest fairing for a schoole-bred sonne. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 17 Sept. (1976) IX. 309 I..did give her five guineas as a fairing. 1727 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 135 A jewel box which Mrs. Tillier desires you to accept as her fairing. 1740 T. Lediard German Spy (ed. 2) xxii. 193 She told me, she was going to the Fair, and hop'd I would give her something for a Fairing. 1826 M. R. Mitford in Monthly Mag. Jan. 14 To our little pet, Lizzy..she predicted a fairing. 1920 H. Campbell Island Folk Songs 18 I choiced my lass's fairing—A brooch wi' a cairngorm. 1960 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Explorer vi. 192 ‘An' a fairing for the nipper’, he said... ‘He wants to go to the fair,’ explained Robert, ‘but he hasn't any money’. 1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's 29 There were tea caddies, presents from everywhere, fairings, dresser-plates, crotcheted anti-mascassars and cushions. b. Scottish and Irish English (northern). That which is deserved; a due reward or recompense, whether good or evil. Chiefly in to get one's fairing, to give (a person) his or her fairing. Cf. desert n.¹ 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill > get one's deserts to sow the wind and reap the whirlwindc1384 to drink to one's oysters1470 to serve (a person) right1587 to get the wissel of one's groat1721 to get one's fairing1787 to get one's bitters1812 to get one's faring1846 come1896 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > deserve (well or ill) > give one his deserts to serve (a person) right1587 to give (a person) his or her fairing1818 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxx, in Poems (new ed.) 64 Niest time we meet, I'll wad a groat, He's got his fairin! 1818 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 161 Mackay will pit him down..he'll gi'e him his fairing. 1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. ii. iv. 262 ‘Ane o' them got his fairin.’ 1830 J. Banim Denounced I. xii. 106 Punish him, Maud! pay him! give him his fairing! 1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Penny Wheep 21 Blaefaced afore the throne o' God He'll get his fairin' yet. 1999 J. Robertson Day O Judgement 19 Nae hotchin an nae yabberin nou, That aw mey lairn, baith wee an great, The fairins that tae each is due. 3. The action of going to the fair. Chiefly in to go a-fairing, to go fairing. Now rare. ΚΠ 1838 United Service Jrnl. June 211 I went fairing, and got some gingerbread. 1885 J. F. Molloy Royalty Restored II. 218 Even her majesty was tempted on one occasion to go a-fairing. 1887 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 251 The fairing was done with shivers. 1904 D. Sladen Japan in Pictures v. 122/2 Some of this happy family go a-fairing or holidaying while the others carry on the business. 1922 Living Age 11 Nov. 366/2 Young man Catchieside, and if I go a-fairing, Who's declaring I'm too old for going? 4. a. A small gingerbread biscuit; a ginger nut. In early use: spec. one sold at a fair (cf. sense 1). Now usually in Cornish fairing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > other biscuits dorcake14.. cracknelc1440 hard breada1500 crackling1598 Naples biscuit1650 gingerbread man1686 chocolate biscuit1702 biscotin1723 sponge biscuit1736 maple biscuita1753 butter biscuit1758 nut1775 Oliver biscuit1786 funeral biscuit1790 rock biscuit?1790 ratafia1801 finger biscuit1812 Savoy drop1816 lady's finger1818 snap1819 Abernethy1830 pretzel1831 wine-biscuit1834 gingersnap1838 captain's biscuit1843 lebkuchen1847 simnel1854 sugar cookie1854 peppernut1862 McClellan pie1863 Savoy ring1866 Brown George1867 beaten biscuit1876 digestive1876 Osborne1876 Bath Oliver1878 marie1878 boer biscuit1882 charcoal biscuit1885 biscotti1886 fairing1888 snickerdoodle1889 pfeffernuss1891 zwieback1894 Nice1895 Garibaldi biscuit1896 Oswegoc1900 squashed fly1900 amaretto1905 boerebeskuit1905 Romary1905 petit beurre1906 Oswego biscuit1907 soetkoekie1910 Oreo1912 custard cream1916 Anzac1923 sweet biscuit1929 langue de chat1931 Bourbon biscuit1932 Afghan1934 flapjack1935 Florentine1936 chocolate chip cookie1938 choc chip cookie1940 Toll House cookie1940 tuile1943 pizzelle1949 black and white1967 Romany Cream1970 papri1978 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Fairing, a peculiar kind of thin, brown cake sold at fairs, called by the better class ‘gingerbread nuts’. 1893 Yorks. Herald 14 Jan. (Suppl.) 4/6 The gilt ginger-bread ‘fairings’ which were common throughout the country..often had the large and small alphabets printed upon them. 1957 Times 12 Oct. 1/ From Cornwall. Genuine Cornish gingerbreads and Cornish fairings, made by Furniss of Truro for over 100 years. 1984 J. Grigson Brit. Cookery 35/2 Of the biscuits, my favourite is the Cornish fairing with its crackled top and brown spicy flavour. 2007 A. Kelley Bower Bird 170 She buys some fairings—Cornish biscuits. b. A small Victorian porcelain ornament of a type originally sold at fairs, typically featuring human or animal figures and bearing a humorous or sentimental caption. ΚΠ 1964 W. S. Bristowe (title) Victorian china fairings. 1972 Daily Tel. 4 Feb. 11/7 A fairing of two girls standing before a parson and saying ‘Please, Sir, what would you charge to christen my doll?’ went..for £140. 1999 B. Neels Good Wife 40 The fairing was small, a man and woman holding hands, crudely done, yet charming. Compounds General attributive and objective. ΚΠ 1593 Passionate Morrice sig. I^v Honestie knowes what the fairing-monger will saye. 1790 F. Burney Diary Aug. (1842) V. 150 I placed one of my fairing work-baskets..on a table. 1801 G. Chipman Amer. Moralist 172 I produced our little fairing box, and begged him to accept the contents. 1882 C. Bell tr. G. M. Ebers Burgomaster's Wife xviii. 195 It was the whole of his fairing-money. 1902 W. G. Simms Captain J. Smith ix. 270 The settlement should have known all the life and bustle of a market-town in fairing time. 1998 S. Bagdade & A. Bagdade Warman's Eng. & Continental Pottery & Porcelain (ed. 3) 88/3 Fairing themes include courtship and marriage scenes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fairingn.² Brit. /ˈfɛːrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɛrɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fair v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < fair v. (compare sense 4 at that entry) + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action or process of smoothing the lines of a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle, typically in order to reduce drag; streamlining. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > specific procedures furring1622 ceiling1627 spaling1805 fortifying1820 conversion1850 boot-topping1867 fairing1867 horning1879 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > construction and servicing aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > making streamlined cleaning-up1922 fairing1927 streamlining1936 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 286 Fairing, sheering a ship in construction. Also, the draught of a ship. 1903 Marine Engin. Oct. 526/1 One large item of expense which should not be overlooked is that of ribbands and the fairing of the ship by carpenters. 1927 Daily Tel. 6 Sept. 11/3 The fairing of the wings into the fuselage. 2008 D. Danenberg Compl. Wooden Runabout Restoration Guide i. xii. 197/2 (caption) Some details..must be handcarved into the covering boards after fairing has been done. b. A structure or part which serves to smooth the lines of a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle, typically in order to reduce drag; structures of this type collectively. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > structures to reduce drag or lift fairing1936 spoiler1963 aerofoil1966 air dam1970 skirt1974 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > rocket > [noun] > types of rocket engine > fairing fairing1964 skirt1964 1914 Aeronaut. Jrnl. Oct. 316 Fairing, a piece added to any structure to reduce its head resistance or drag. 1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 137 Fairing, usually made of thin sheet aluminium, wood, or a light construction of wood and fabric; and bent round detrimental surface in order to give it a ‘fair’ or ‘stream-like’ shape. 1936 Times 19 Oct. 8/4 The car, which has graceful curves and fairings to reduce wind-noise, costs £368. 1964 J. L. Nayler Dict. Astronautics 252 Skirt, the lower outer part of a rocket vehicle. It acts as a fairing to the rocket motor or booster. 1988 Zool. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 94 81 The skin fold may act as a fairing to streamline the eyeball. 2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 10 May 17/3 The amount of broken bits of motorcycle plastic and fairing was unbelievable, demonstrating the number of accidents they must have up there. 2. In extended use: the action, process, or result of smoothing the lines in a visual representation of something. ΚΠ 1933 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 140 680 The friction results were obtained from Goodman's fig. 46..; a certain amount of cross plotting, and some approximate but slight ‘fairing’, was necessary. 1959 B. G. D. Salt in J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation 319 Movements in animation are generally ‘faired’...The term ‘to fair’ or ‘fairing’—an old craft word commonly used in the aircraft industry—is probably the most accurate available. 2008 P. Salvi et al. in F. Chen & B. Jüttler Adv. in Geom. Modeling & Processing i. 160 Figure 4 shows a curve before and after fairing. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1930 Daily Express 23 May 11/5 The fairing piece at the extreme end of the tail..was slightly damaged. 1934 Flight 25 Jan. 78 e/1 The section on lines will..apply equally well to a set of ‘fairing lines’ for an ordinary fairing drawing. 1972 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 1971 367/1 Ship surfaces..obtained by manual drafting techniques assisted by a fairing tool, the batten. 2000 Scootering Mar. (Scooter Trader Suppl.) 4/2 Vespa 50 Special, Primavera 125 engine,..fairing trim, crashbars backrack, Dexter tyres. 2007 J. Wu et al. in M. Gross & H. Pfister Point-based Graphics iv. 147 The typical discrete fairing methods for polygonal meshes..can be generalized. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1574n.²1867
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