单词 | flaking |
释义 | flakingn. The action of the verb; the condition of being flaked or flecked; spec. an adventitious appearance of light flecks on animals. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating > instance of threshingOE fustigation1428 breeching1520 trouncingc1550 bace1575 firking1594 belting1602 knave's grease1602 oil of baston1604 oil of birch1604 oil of hazel1604 oil of holly1604 oil of whip1604 lamb-pie1607 lamming1611 drubbing1650 vapulation1656 warming1681 floggation1688 working over1695 cullis1719 thrashing1720 halberd1756 licking1756 dressing1769 leathering1790 nointing1794 dusting1799 teasing1807 hiding1809 whopping1812 thrumming1823 toco1823 flaking1829 teaser1832 lathering1835 welting1840 pasting1851 towelling1851 whaling1852 hickory oil1855 swishing1859 slating1860 going-over1881 six of the best1912 belt beating1928 ass-kicking1943 stomping1958 seeing to1968 butt-kicking1970 society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > [noun] > painting > flaws in paintwork cissing1877 flaking1904 run1921 teardrop1922 nib1940 1829 G. Griffin Collegians xxxix. 184 I'm only sorry I didn't give him a thing more..an' that was a good flaking. 1841 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland II. 316 (note) My back was sore with the flaking..Flake away, my jewil. 1879 Nature 18 Sept. 483/2 He [Mr. F. H. Cushing] accidentally discovered that small fragments could be broken off from a piece of flint with much greater..precision, by pressure with a pointed rod of bone or horn, than by blows with a hammer-stone..To this process Mr. Cushing gives the name of flaking, to distinguish it from chipping produced by percussion. 1902 W. Bateson & E. R. Saunders Rep. to Evol. Comm. Royal Soc. No. 1. 47 Flower-colour of First Cross-bred Generation... In connection with the question of colour one point of interest may be briefly mentioned here, viz., the occurrence of ‘flaking’... Such flaking was recorded in thirty-one out of thirty-nine combinations in the first year. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 224/1 Flaking, a defect in distemper in which the paint flakes off, owing to imperfect adhesion with the surface to which it is applied. 1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 591/2 The automatic carrier once more picks them up, to transfer them to the flaking-machine. 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 173/2 The entire flint armoury of Philip Bentley, along with his fire-drills and flaking-tools. 1954 S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles x. 293 A small flaking-site at Stake Pass near the Langdale Pikes in Westmorland. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). flakingadj. That flakes, in various senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [adjective] > dropping or falling vertically > like flakes of snow flaking1836 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > having outer layer lost or removed > removing outer layer pilling1483 flaking1870 1836 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens (1837) II. 561 The wild steeds..from their fiery breath..Scatter the flaking foam. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 115 Potentilla fruticosa..bark flaking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1829adj.1836 |
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