fillingn.

Brit.

/ˈfɪlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfɪlɪŋ/

Etymology: < fill v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of the verb in various senses. Also with adverbs, as filling in, filling out, filling up: cf. fill v. Phrasal verbs. Only gerundial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling

fillingc1440

replenishinga1500

repletion1646

filla1732

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 160/2 Fyllynge, implecio.

1486 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 253 Fullyng vp of þe dyke.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Remplissement, a filling.

a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 147 They..imagine the filling of that [the belly] the full fruite of all their expected good.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 209 This Wall being made all round, you begin the Filling in of the Bottom.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 38 b One thing is proper..for the outward Face of the Wall, another for the cramming and filling up the middle Parts.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §114 The interior filling of the walls was with rough Rubble.

1816 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) II. 31 Such a filling up of the time as will keep you away from the evil communications.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 190 He..does his filling-in rather shabbily.

1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/4 Wanted, several Boys, used to Filling-in and Finishing.

1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Filling, the filling up of a moulding box with its body of sand enclosing a pattern.

1958 Spectator 4 July 13/2 As ‘ribbon development’ is now a dirty phrase, the new horror is called ‘filling in’.

1959 Gloss. Packaging Terms (B.S.I.) 35 Filling-in, a process for applying paint or other materials to a recessed design to obtain a contrasting colour effect.

1967 Gloss. Paper/Ink Terms for Letterpress Printing (B.S.I.) 5 Filling in, the spreading of the printed image, to the point where the small white spaces are obliterated.

2. concrete. Also plural.

a. That which fills or is used to fill a cavity or vacant space, to stop a tooth or a hole, to make up a bank or road, the interior of a wall, etc.; also in Dentistry, a quantity of this in one tooth. Also, †a full supply or ‘fill’ (of food, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > enough to satisfy want or desire

fillc893

fulla1225

fillinga1400

sufficiencec1450

bellyful1535

stakinga1595

wameful1722

skinful1897

the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > a supply > a full supply

fillc893

fillinga1400

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > filling of vacant space > that which serves to

filler1591

filling1597

filler-up1710

packing1779

upfilling1822

fill-up1853

infilling1871

filler-in1877

space-filler1886

infill1939

microballoon1954

fill1957

the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > a restoration > filling(s)

plug1847

filling1848

plumbing1955

a1400–50 Alexander 4265 Þat is þe filling of fode þat ilk flesch askis.

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xix. 185 We hadden many goode vesselles in whiche we hadden put fillinge [Fr. emplage] of the grete tresores of Paradys.

1597 S. Finche Let. 18 Feb. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 153 Great flinte and chalke for the buildinge, and small for fillinge.

1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxviii. 17 Thou shalt set in it settings [margin. fill in it fillings] of stones.

1640 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 174 Binding them [the stones] with fillings and cement.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 62 The foreman to lye the courses [of hay], another to lye the fillinge and to fill after him.

1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 119 The Bank of any common filling.

1830 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 174 A few feet of the fillings of its foundation walls.

1848 Lit. Amer. 29 July 64/2 Indestructible filling for the teeth.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xviii. 189 The fillings of the aperture are unimportant.

1878 L. P. Meredith Teeth (ed. 2) 74 The enamel at the margin of the filling is fractured.

1892 Daily News 17 Nov. 3/3 The excavated material will form good ‘filling’.

1943 W. Lewis Let. 5 Dec. (1963) 371 My wife was greatly impressed by the number of your ‘fillings’.

b. Something of inferior quality put in to occupy space.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > filling of vacant space > that which serves to > inferior

filling1640

1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 171 [Heraldic coats] of a later Edition..are so full of filling, that they are empty of honour.

1725 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking (ed. 6) III. liv. 6 Why that spiteful Character given to all Crowds? meer Fillings of his own, without warrant from his Original.

1733 J. Swift On Poetry 16 The Prefaces of Dryden..meerly writ at first for filling To raise the Volume's Price, a Shilling.

1860 R. N. Wornum Anal. Ornament (ed. 2) 19 All such superficial decoration is..mere filling.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 June 12/1 The practice of putting into higher class goods..even the smallest quantity of filling.

a. Similarly in various technical uses (see quots.); spec. in cigar-making and mining.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > threads in process of weaving > [noun] > weft

weftc725

woofc725

abbeOE

shoot1717

shute1721

filling1812

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco leaf > type of

wrapper leaf1688

filling1812

strips1844

stript1881

wrap tobacco1888

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific mining processes > in coal-mining

outstroke1747

holing1841

coal-cutting1842

patio1845

sumping1849

bottoming1856

salting1856

patio process1862

spragging1865

yardage1877

booming1880

brushing1883

filling1883

sounding1883

yard-work1883

blanketing1884

goafing1888

freezing process1889

power loading1901

bashing1905

rock dusting1915

mucking1918

solid stowing1929

stone-dusting1930

roof bolting1949

rock bolting1955

1812 Weekly Reg. (Baltimore) 2 9/1 Much of it [sc. wool]..may be wrought into..worsted chain or warp for woolen weft or fillings.

1839 J. R. Lowell Let. Sept. (1894) I. 52 The filling of cigars now belies the wrapper.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Fillings, prepared wort, added in small quantities to casks of ale to cleanse it.

1864 Congress. Globe 3 June 2706/3 Cigars are made of Connecticut grown wrappers and the best qualities filled with Cuba filling.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 844/1 Filling, an embankment of stone, gravel, earth, etc, to make a raised bed for a road, railroad track, or canal. An artificial, elevated way.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 844/2 Filling (Weaving), the weft-thread which fills up the warp.

1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 439 For this coat, which is called filling, use one half ground lead and any good mineral.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 106 Filling, the places where trams are loaded in the workings.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 2/1 ‘Fillins! What may they be?’ ‘Why, they're the inside of noo cigars, of course.’

1901 Chambers's Jrnl. May 302/2 Each leaf will give on an average two ‘wrappers’ or outside covers for cigars and when used for such the remainder of the leaf is used for ‘filling’.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 332/1 Filling, the loading of tubs or trucks with coal, ore, or waste.

b. Nautical. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

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

filling1794

upmaking1846

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 24 Fillings are pieces fayed to the side of the mast, edges of the front-fish, and cheeks.

1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 30 The oar or scull is ‘filled’ with harder wood between the shank and loom, called the upper and under fillings.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 67 What is termed the ‘filling’?..the intervals between the frame timbers are filled up solid..so that if the outside planks be injured a watertight surface would remain.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

filling-earth n.

filling-machine n.

ΚΠ

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110/2 Meat Cutting and Sausage-Making Machines..Filling Machines.

filling-room n.

ΚΠ

1799 Capt. Watkins in Naval Chron. 1 206 It was impossible to fill cartridges as fast as they wanted them, though the filling rooms were crouded.

filling-stones n.

ΚΠ

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 202 The filling-stones, rubbish conveyed betweene the two outsides of a wall.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xiii. 20 Hungary might bring filling-stones to this building.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xviii. 116 Their walls though high, must needs be hollow, wanting filling-stones.

C2.

filling-engine n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Filling-engine,..a machine in which waste and floss silk from the..silk-machinery is disentangled, and the fibers laid parallel.

filling-nail n. (see quot. 1850 and quot. 1867 at fill v. 1d).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > nails, rivets bolts

rove and clench1336

scupper-nail1485

wrakling1494

ribbing-nail1703

filling-nail1784

Blake's screw1840

in-and-out bolts1841

scarp-bolt1867

pan head1869

1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. v. ii. 21 Some of their most expert swimmers were one day discovered under the ships, drawing out the filling nails of the sheathing.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 134 Filling nails are generally of cast iron, and driven very thick in the bottom planks instead of copper sheathing.

filling-station n. originally U.S. a depot for the supply of petrol, oil, etc. to motorists; a petrol station.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [noun] > service station

pump station1871

body shop1906

service station1910

petrol station1912

gas station1914

filling-station1921

garage1934

1921 Outing May 66/2 He should not attempt the trip without a small reserve can of gasoline..enough to carry him to a filling station in case of leakage.

1931 Earl of Mayo et al. Regional Planning Rep. on Oxfordshire v. 73 No Filling Station..shall be permitted by the occupier thereof to be visible unless [etc.].

1935 Amer. Speech 10 5/2 The garage mechanic.., or the filling-station attendant, usually knows the town as well as anybody.

1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. 272 Roadhouses..and filling stations were brave in new paint.

filling-thread n. one of the threads for the woof or tram.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > threads in process of weaving > [noun] > weft > a thread

shoot-yarn1736

pick1829

shoot-thread1844

filling-thread1886

1886 Pop. Sc. Monthly XXVIII. 483 To make one yard of cloth, a shuttle carrying the filling-thread is thrown across the web perhaps 1,500 times.

filling-timber n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 118 Filling-timbers, the intermediate timbers between the frames that are got up into their places singly after the frames are ribanded and shored.

filling-transom n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Filling-transom, is just above the deck transoms, securing the ends of the gun-deck plank and lower-transoms.

Draft additions June 2015

Food used to fill a pie or pastry case or placed between the layers of a sandwich, cake, etc.

ΚΠ

1734 J. Middleton & H. Howard 500 New Receipts 172 Put a little Marrow into all your Pyes, harden the Crusts in the Oven, and fill them with a small Ladle; let your Filling be as thin as Pancake Batter.

1859 Ohio Cultivator 15 Sept. 287/1 Stewing the molasses destroys its peculiar flavor so disagreeable to some, and gives your pies a more juicy filling.

1899 Zion's Herald (Electronic ed.) 1 Nov. 1396/3 A lettuce leaf with a little mayonnaise is a delicate filling for a sandwich.

1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) II. vi. 500 He fell to, with unmistakable and outspoken relish upon the layer cake, which had a chocolate filling.

1965 M. K. Khayat & M. C. Keatinge Food from Arab World (ed. 3) 101 Baqlawa is made of many layers of paper-thin dough with a filling of crushed nuts and sugar between layers.

2002 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 5/3 Sandwich shops selling exotic fillings have led to a boom in bakery fast food.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	filling
释义	fillingn. Brit. /ˈfɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɪlɪŋ/ Etymology: < fill v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of the verb in various senses. Also with adverbs, as filling in, filling out, filling up: cf. fill v. Phrasal verbs. Only gerundial. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling fillingc1440 replenishinga1500 repletion1646 filla1732 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 160/2 Fyllynge, implecio. 1486 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 253 Fullyng vp of þe dyke. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Remplissement, a filling. a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 147 They..imagine the filling of that [the belly] the full fruite of all their expected good. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 209 This Wall being made all round, you begin the Filling in of the Bottom. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 38 b One thing is proper..for the outward Face of the Wall, another for the cramming and filling up the middle Parts. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §114 The interior filling of the walls was with rough Rubble. 1816 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) II. 31 Such a filling up of the time as will keep you away from the evil communications. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 190 He..does his filling-in rather shabbily. 1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/4 Wanted, several Boys, used to Filling-in and Finishing. 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Filling, the filling up of a moulding box with its body of sand enclosing a pattern. 1958 Spectator 4 July 13/2 As ‘ribbon development’ is now a dirty phrase, the new horror is called ‘filling in’. 1959 Gloss. Packaging Terms (B.S.I.) 35 Filling-in, a process for applying paint or other materials to a recessed design to obtain a contrasting colour effect. 1967 Gloss. Paper/Ink Terms for Letterpress Printing (B.S.I.) 5 Filling in, the spreading of the printed image, to the point where the small white spaces are obliterated. 2. concrete. Also plural. a. That which fills or is used to fill a cavity or vacant space, to stop a tooth or a hole, to make up a bank or road, the interior of a wall, etc.; also in Dentistry, a quantity of this in one tooth. Also, †a full supply or ‘fill’ (of food, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > enough to satisfy want or desire fillc893 fulla1225 fillinga1400 sufficiencec1450 bellyful1535 stakinga1595 wameful1722 skinful1897 the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > a supply > a full supply fillc893 fillinga1400 the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > filling of vacant space > that which serves to filler1591 filling1597 filler-up1710 packing1779 upfilling1822 fill-up1853 infilling1871 filler-in1877 space-filler1886 infill1939 microballoon1954 fill1957 the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > a restoration > filling(s) plug1847 filling1848 plumbing1955 a1400–50 Alexander 4265 Þat is þe filling of fode þat ilk flesch askis. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xix. 185 We hadden many goode vesselles in whiche we hadden put fillinge [Fr. emplage] of the grete tresores of Paradys. 1597 S. Finche Let. 18 Feb. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 153 Great flinte and chalke for the buildinge, and small for fillinge. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxviii. 17 Thou shalt set in it settings [margin. fill in it fillings] of stones. View more context for this quotation 1640 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 174 Binding them [the stones] with fillings and cement. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 62 The foreman to lye the courses [of hay], another to lye the fillinge and to fill after him. 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 119 The Bank of any common filling. 1830 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 174 A few feet of the fillings of its foundation walls. 1848 Lit. Amer. 29 July 64/2 Indestructible filling for the teeth. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xviii. 189 The fillings of the aperture are unimportant. 1878 L. P. Meredith Teeth (ed. 2) 74 The enamel at the margin of the filling is fractured. 1892 Daily News 17 Nov. 3/3 The excavated material will form good ‘filling’. 1943 W. Lewis Let. 5 Dec. (1963) 371 My wife was greatly impressed by the number of your ‘fillings’. b. Something of inferior quality put in to occupy space. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > filling of vacant space > that which serves to > inferior filling1640 1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 171 [Heraldic coats] of a later Edition..are so full of filling, that they are empty of honour. 1725 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking (ed. 6) III. liv. 6 Why that spiteful Character given to all Crowds? meer Fillings of his own, without warrant from his Original. 1733 J. Swift On Poetry 16 The Prefaces of Dryden..meerly writ at first for filling To raise the Volume's Price, a Shilling. 1860 R. N. Wornum Anal. Ornament (ed. 2) 19 All such superficial decoration is..mere filling. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 June 12/1 The practice of putting into higher class goods..even the smallest quantity of filling. 3. a. Similarly in various technical uses (see quots.); spec. in cigar-making and mining. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > threads in process of weaving > [noun] > weft weftc725 woofc725 abbeOE shoot1717 shute1721 filling1812 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco leaf > type of wrapper leaf1688 filling1812 strips1844 stript1881 wrap tobacco1888 society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific mining processes > in coal-mining outstroke1747 holing1841 coal-cutting1842 patio1845 sumping1849 bottoming1856 salting1856 patio process1862 spragging1865 yardage1877 booming1880 brushing1883 filling1883 sounding1883 yard-work1883 blanketing1884 goafing1888 freezing process1889 power loading1901 bashing1905 rock dusting1915 mucking1918 solid stowing1929 stone-dusting1930 roof bolting1949 rock bolting1955 1812 Weekly Reg. (Baltimore) 2 9/1 Much of it [sc. wool]..may be wrought into..worsted chain or warp for woolen weft or fillings. 1839 J. R. Lowell Let. Sept. (1894) I. 52 The filling of cigars now belies the wrapper. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Fillings, prepared wort, added in small quantities to casks of ale to cleanse it. 1864 Congress. Globe 3 June 2706/3 Cigars are made of Connecticut grown wrappers and the best qualities filled with Cuba filling. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 844/1 Filling, an embankment of stone, gravel, earth, etc, to make a raised bed for a road, railroad track, or canal. An artificial, elevated way. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 844/2 Filling (Weaving), the weft-thread which fills up the warp. 1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 439 For this coat, which is called filling, use one half ground lead and any good mineral. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 106 Filling, the places where trams are loaded in the workings. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 2/1 ‘Fillins! What may they be?’ ‘Why, they're the inside of noo cigars, of course.’ 1901 Chambers's Jrnl. May 302/2 Each leaf will give on an average two ‘wrappers’ or outside covers for cigars and when used for such the remainder of the leaf is used for ‘filling’. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 332/1 Filling, the loading of tubs or trucks with coal, ore, or waste. b. Nautical. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > strengthening materials filling1794 upmaking1846 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 24 Fillings are pieces fayed to the side of the mast, edges of the front-fish, and cheeks. 1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 30 The oar or scull is ‘filled’ with harder wood between the shank and loom, called the upper and under fillings. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 67 What is termed the ‘filling’?..the intervals between the frame timbers are filled up solid..so that if the outside planks be injured a watertight surface would remain. Compounds C1. General attributive. filling-earth n. filling-machine n. ΚΠ 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110/2 Meat Cutting and Sausage-Making Machines..Filling Machines. filling-room n. ΚΠ 1799 Capt. Watkins in Naval Chron. 1 206 It was impossible to fill cartridges as fast as they wanted them, though the filling rooms were crouded. filling-stones n. ΚΠ 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 202 The filling-stones, rubbish conveyed betweene the two outsides of a wall. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xiii. 20 Hungary might bring filling-stones to this building. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xviii. 116 Their walls though high, must needs be hollow, wanting filling-stones. C2. filling-engine n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Filling-engine,..a machine in which waste and floss silk from the..silk-machinery is disentangled, and the fibers laid parallel. filling-nail n. (see quot. 1850 and quot. 1867 at fill v. 1d). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > nails, rivets bolts rove and clench1336 scupper-nail1485 wrakling1494 ribbing-nail1703 filling-nail1784 Blake's screw1840 in-and-out bolts1841 scarp-bolt1867 pan head1869 1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. v. ii. 21 Some of their most expert swimmers were one day discovered under the ships, drawing out the filling nails of the sheathing. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 134 Filling nails are generally of cast iron, and driven very thick in the bottom planks instead of copper sheathing. filling-station n. originally U.S. a depot for the supply of petrol, oil, etc. to motorists; a petrol station. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [noun] > service station pump station1871 body shop1906 service station1910 petrol station1912 gas station1914 filling-station1921 garage1934 1921 Outing May 66/2 He should not attempt the trip without a small reserve can of gasoline..enough to carry him to a filling station in case of leakage. 1931 Earl of Mayo et al. Regional Planning Rep. on Oxfordshire v. 73 No Filling Station..shall be permitted by the occupier thereof to be visible unless [etc.]. 1935 Amer. Speech 10 5/2 The garage mechanic.., or the filling-station attendant, usually knows the town as well as anybody. 1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. 272 Roadhouses..and filling stations were brave in new paint. filling-thread n. one of the threads for the woof or tram. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > threads in process of weaving > [noun] > weft > a thread shoot-yarn1736 pick1829 shoot-thread1844 filling-thread1886 1886 Pop. Sc. Monthly XXVIII. 483 To make one yard of cloth, a shuttle carrying the filling-thread is thrown across the web perhaps 1,500 times. filling-timber n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 118 Filling-timbers, the intermediate timbers between the frames that are got up into their places singly after the frames are ribanded and shored. filling-transom n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Filling-transom, is just above the deck transoms, securing the ends of the gun-deck plank and lower-transoms. Draft additions June 2015 Food used to fill a pie or pastry case or placed between the layers of a sandwich, cake, etc. ΚΠ 1734 J. Middleton & H. Howard 500 New Receipts 172 Put a little Marrow into all your Pyes, harden the Crusts in the Oven, and fill them with a small Ladle; let your Filling be as thin as Pancake Batter. 1859 Ohio Cultivator 15 Sept. 287/1 Stewing the molasses destroys its peculiar flavor so disagreeable to some, and gives your pies a more juicy filling. 1899 Zion's Herald (Electronic ed.) 1 Nov. 1396/3 A lettuce leaf with a little mayonnaise is a delicate filling for a sandwich. 1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) II. vi. 500 He fell to, with unmistakable and outspoken relish upon the layer cake, which had a chocolate filling. 1965 M. K. Khayat & M. C. Keatinge Food from Arab World (ed. 3) 101 Baqlawa is made of many layers of paper-thin dough with a filling of crushed nuts and sugar between layers. 2002 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 5/3 Sandwich shops selling exotic fillings have led to a boom in bakery fast food. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). fillingadj. Brit. /ˈfɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɪlɪŋ/ Etymology: < fill v. + -ing suffix². That fills or is adapted to fill. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > satisfying or sufficing filling1626 hearty1776 the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > [adjective] > contenting or satisfying payinga1500 satisfying1536 contentful1542 contenting1548 contentive1593 well-contenting1605 satiating1611 filling1626 contentsome1632 comfortable1769 the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > filling repletive1565 filling1626 impregning1642 impletive1647 repletory1790 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §300 Things that are Sweet and Fat, are more Filling. 1674 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 267 The world to come, not this, is the filling world. 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 179 Can a Man Sin with this great and filling Thought before him? 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xliii. 469 ‘Crumpets is not wholesome’...‘But they're so cheap..and so wery fillin' at the price.’ 1872 Daily News 5 Nov. The most convenient, not to say filling, luncheon. Compounds filling pile n. one of a series of piles driven in the space between gauge piles (gauge n. Compounds 1). Derivatives ˈfillingly adv. in a filling manner. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] fullyeOE allesOE fullOE rightc1175 everydealc1300 wholec1300 whollya1325 finelyc1330 fairly1340 completec1374 gainlya1375 clearly1377 freelya1393 plaina1393 entire?a1400 entirelyc1400 oddlyc1400 sufficientlyc1440 expressc1475 totally1509 completely1526 finec1530 exactly?1531 sincerely1576 start1599 fillingly1611 circularly1618 solid1651 out-over1745 rotundly1775 roundedly?1802 whole hog1840 clear-away1883 whole cloth1917 righteous1948 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fillingly, compleatly, perfectly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400adj.1611
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