grassingn.

Brit.

/ˈɡrɑːsɪŋ/,

/ˈɡrasɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɡræsɪŋ/, Scottish English

/ˈɡrasɪŋ/

Forms: see grass n.¹ and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: grass n.¹, grass v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < grass n.¹ + -ing suffix¹, and partly < grass v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier grazing n.¹

1. Originally Scottish.

a. The feeding of cattle, sheep, etc., on grass; the provision of pasturage; grazing, pasturing.

ΚΠ

1479 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 41/1 viij^xx of ald scheip..put be the said lady in gresing to the said landis.

1549 Lanark Sheriff Court 16^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Foddering The said Ryche..grantit that he had sic ane lik qwy..in fodering & gresing.

1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione sig. T2 In latine, jus pascendi pecoris, is quhair an tenent hes right given to him of the feiding, grassing, or pastouring of his cattel within ane park or onie uther ground inclosed.

1649 Edinb. Test. LXIV. f. 243 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) For grassing of scheip v lib. xiij s.

1680 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1914) 3rd Ser. VI. 390 A piece of ground belonging to the complainer for grasseing.

1841 J. Robertson in Statist. Acct. Lanarkshire 436 The keep of a cow may on average be L. 10, 10s. per annum, and the grassing of 300 cows will be L. 900.

1922 in Hawaiian Forester & Agriculturist (1923) Jan.–Mar. 9 Within these revised boundaries there is now no intentional grassing of animals with the exception of on 1,907 acres in Maulua-nui, and about 1,704 acres in Waipunalei.

1999 P. Gunin et al. Vegetation Dynamics Mongolia Index 235/1 Grassing of livestock.

b. Scottish and English regional (northern). Grassy land used or suitable for the grazing of cattle, sheep, etc.; pasturage, pastureland. Also: a piece of such land; a pasture.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture

leasowc950

leasea1000

pasturea1300

common pasturea1325

grassland1324

laund1340

lea1357

gang1413

feedingc1430

grassa1500

raika1500

beast-gate1507

pasturagec1515

grazing1517

average1537

pasture groundc1537

walk1549

grassing1557

pastural1575

browsing1577

feed1580

pastureland1591

meadow pasture1614

green side1616

range1626

pastorage1628

tore1707

graziery1731

pasturing1759

permanent pasture1771

sweet-veld1785

walk land1797

run1804

sweet-grass1812

potrero1822

pasturage land1855

turn-out1895

lawn1899

1557 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 388 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 The pasture and grassing of Capneyvaugh.

1632 Rec. Inverness Presbytery (Scot. Hist. Soc., 1896) 25 They went and measured and marched the Gleib and grassing thereof as followeth.

a1656 R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earldom Sutherland (1813) 344 The ffealing and girsing of Aldinalbanagh.

a1743 J. Relph Hay-time in Misc. of Poems (1747) 14 Far is the gursin off.

1895 Carlisle Patriot 10 May 4/2 The grassings are seen to be improving almost day by day.

1962 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. i. 244 Q[uestion]. When you arrange to put your cows on somebody else's field, what do you do?.. [Northumberland] Take grassing.

1990 A. Bil Shieling, 1600–1840 xii. 214 A grassing of much smaller acreage than many of the others in Perthshire.

†c. Scottish and English regional (northern). The right or privilege of grazing one's cattle, sheep, etc., in a particular place. Obsolete.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from senses 1a and 1b.

ΚΠ

a1656 R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earldom Sutherland (1813) 351 Sir Robert gave vnto John Robsone some lands about Dounrobin, with the girsin of Badinlogh.

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words at Whittle An harden sark, a guse grassing, and a whittle gait, were all the salary of a clergyman, not many years ago, in Cumberland.

†2. In dyeing, painting, etc.: the application of a first or ground colour. Also (and in earliest use): the colour itself. Obsolete.Apparently only recorded in dictionaries.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > laying on of colour > of preparatory layer

grassing1538

dead-colouring1668

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Sublitio, the grounde colour, wheron the colour is layde, in cloth dyed it is callyd grasynge perfyte.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Grasynge of clothes, whiche is settinge the grounde coloure, sublitio.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Sublition, a plaistering, or daubing underneath, in painting it is the grasing, or laying the ground colour under the perfect colour.

3. The action or process of covering land, an area, etc., with grass or turf; frequently with over, down. Also: the action or process of becoming covered with grass; chiefly with over.

ΚΠ

1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour xxxiii. 101 I have often heard of..another sort of speedy grassing, which is this. They sow their ground with seed of claver-grass, a very small quantitie on an acre, and in some places they mow it twice in a year, yet never sow it but once.

1853 H. P. Andrews Let. 8 Nov. 9 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (1854) (33rd Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Exec. Doc. 31) V The grassing over of the seaward slope.

1861 N.-Y. Observer 1 Aug. 248/1 Cultivate the ground until you get it in a proper condition for grassing down.

1907 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 18 335 With a wide flood-plain comes a general grassing of the bluffs.

1968 Commonw. Forestry Rev. 47 105 Here the influence of a higher rainfall was immediately obvious in the grassing over of the runways.

1996 M. S. Northcott Environment & Christian Ethics (2001) i. 35 Today in both the North and the South there is a great groundswell of popular protest..at the tarmacking or grassing over of forests, wetlands and highland areas.

2010 Times of India (Nexis) 29 Nov. The protesters claimed that the court order only allows the grassing of the land without affecting the contours of the heritage structure and the lake.

4. The action or process of laying out cloth or textile fibres, esp. flax or hemp, on grass to bleach in the sunlight. Cf. grass v. 5a. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [noun] > bleaching > bleaching by exposure

insolation1617

grassing1705

croft-bleaching1875

1705 L. Crommelin Ess. Improving Hempen & Flaxen Manuf. iii. 20 When the Season offers for watering and grassing, you must pursue exactly the like rules I have already given in reference to the Female Hemp.

1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 121 The grassing [of hemp] requires about five weeks.

1844 J. Sproule Ess. Flax Ireland (1846) 23 Too little watering is given in this country, trusting to the grassing afterwards to make up the deficiency.

1893 Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists 26 Dec. 216/2 The object of the process is to avoid the ‘grassing’, which in winter time is so tedious.

1939 Dyestuffs June 35/2 One of the oldest uses of the ultraviolet rays..is in the ‘grassing’ of linen piece-goods for the production of a pure and permanent white.

2007 K. J. Nielson Interior Textiles 90/2 Sun bleaching is a historical treatment for lightening linen or cotton textiles by laying the gray goods or the finished cloth, if it is white, ‘on the green’ for ten to fourteen days... This is sometimes called grassing.

†5. Printing slang. The undertaking of work on a casual or temporary basis by a compositor. Obsolete. Cf. grass v. 8, grass n.¹ 11.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > casual work

smooting1683

grassing1875

grass1888

1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 44 Many compositors earn a good income by grassing.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 54 Grassing, a compositor taking occasional jobs, or assisting on a newspaper.

1915 Amer. Printer 5 Nov. 318/1 The overtime and dinner hour and casual engagement and Sunday newspaper work and Saturday ‘grassing’ (or casual newspaper work) were also considered at the conference.

6. British colloquial (originally Criminals' slang). The action of informing on someone to the police or (later more widely) another person, an authority, etc. Cf. grass v. 9.

ΚΠ

1943 J. Phelan Lett. from Big House ii. 28 He'll be too fed up to do any real grassing.

1955 R. Croft-Cooke Verdict of you All xi. 194 Scarcely less detested were men suspected of grassing in the prison itself.

1980 Contemp. Rev. June 314 The original payoffs for grassing are no years or eight years in jail, depending on the behaviour of the other prisoner.

1991 Independent (Nexis) 9 May (Education section) 23 The reality is that ‘grassing’ is the worst crime in the bully's book.

2010 Evening Standard (Nexis) 14 Oct. Witness Confident also hopes to challenge the notion that talking to police is ‘grassing’.

Compounds

General attributive, as grassing method, grassing season, grassing work, etc.

ΚΠ

1802 Morning Post 17 July (advt.) The occupier may be accommodated with a sufficient quantity of rich grassing land within a convenient distance.

1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Caithness vii. 137 Were the Caithness farmers to keep their flax unwatered until the month of June,..the grassing operation would be executed without any risk from frost.

1880 G. Webster Criminal Officer 38 I haena seen a better girsin' sizzon for years.

1886 Manch. Guardian 26 Feb. 6/4 The Government sought to restore the old grassing rights of the crofters.

1971 Country Life 25 Nov. 1452/2 The Halliwells were among the first to use chlorine gas for bleaching in place of the old ‘grassing’ process.

1990 A. Bil Shieling, 1600–1840 xii. 214 A temporary lowering of grassing rents.

2004 Golf Course Managem. May 86/3 There were no big rains while the grassing work was being done.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grassing
释义	grassingn. Brit. /ˈɡrɑːsɪŋ/, /ˈɡrasɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡræsɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈɡrasɪŋ/ Forms: see grass n.¹ and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: grass n.¹, grass v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < grass n.¹ + -ing suffix¹, and partly < grass v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier grazing n.¹ 1. Originally Scottish. a. The feeding of cattle, sheep, etc., on grass; the provision of pasturage; grazing, pasturing. ΚΠ 1479 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 41/1 viij^xx of ald scheip..put be the said lady in gresing to the said landis. 1549 Lanark Sheriff Court 16^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Foddering The said Ryche..grantit that he had sic ane lik qwy..in fodering & gresing. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione sig. T2 In latine, jus pascendi pecoris, is quhair an tenent hes right given to him of the feiding, grassing, or pastouring of his cattel within ane park or onie uther ground inclosed. 1649 Edinb. Test. LXIV. f. 243 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) For grassing of scheip v lib. xiij s. 1680 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1914) 3rd Ser. VI. 390 A piece of ground belonging to the complainer for grasseing. 1841 J. Robertson in Statist. Acct. Lanarkshire 436 The keep of a cow may on average be L. 10, 10s. per annum, and the grassing of 300 cows will be L. 900. 1922 in Hawaiian Forester & Agriculturist (1923) Jan.–Mar. 9 Within these revised boundaries there is now no intentional grassing of animals with the exception of on 1,907 acres in Maulua-nui, and about 1,704 acres in Waipunalei. 1999 P. Gunin et al. Vegetation Dynamics Mongolia Index 235/1 Grassing of livestock. b. Scottish and English regional (northern). Grassy land used or suitable for the grazing of cattle, sheep, etc.; pasturage, pastureland. Also: a piece of such land; a pasture. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture leasowc950 leasea1000 pasturea1300 common pasturea1325 grassland1324 laund1340 lea1357 gang1413 feedingc1430 grassa1500 raika1500 beast-gate1507 pasturagec1515 grazing1517 average1537 pasture groundc1537 walk1549 grassing1557 pastural1575 browsing1577 feed1580 pastureland1591 meadow pasture1614 green side1616 range1626 pastorage1628 tore1707 graziery1731 pasturing1759 permanent pasture1771 sweet-veld1785 walk land1797 run1804 sweet-grass1812 potrero1822 pasturage land1855 turn-out1895 lawn1899 1557 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 388 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 The pasture and grassing of Capneyvaugh. 1632 Rec. Inverness Presbytery (Scot. Hist. Soc., 1896) 25 They went and measured and marched the Gleib and grassing thereof as followeth. a1656 R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earldom Sutherland (1813) 344 The ffealing and girsing of Aldinalbanagh. a1743 J. Relph Hay-time in Misc. of Poems (1747) 14 Far is the gursin off. 1895 Carlisle Patriot 10 May 4/2 The grassings are seen to be improving almost day by day. 1962 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. i. 244 Q[uestion]. When you arrange to put your cows on somebody else's field, what do you do?.. [Northumberland] Take grassing. 1990 A. Bil Shieling, 1600–1840 xii. 214 A grassing of much smaller acreage than many of the others in Perthshire. †c. Scottish and English regional (northern). The right or privilege of grazing one's cattle, sheep, etc., in a particular place. Obsolete.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from senses 1a and 1b. ΚΠ a1656 R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earldom Sutherland (1813) 351 Sir Robert gave vnto John Robsone some lands about Dounrobin, with the girsin of Badinlogh. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words at Whittle An harden sark, a guse grassing, and a whittle gait, were all the salary of a clergyman, not many years ago, in Cumberland. †2. In dyeing, painting, etc.: the application of a first or ground colour. Also (and in earliest use): the colour itself. Obsolete.Apparently only recorded in dictionaries. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > laying on of colour > of preparatory layer grassing1538 dead-colouring1668 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Sublitio, the grounde colour, wheron the colour is layde, in cloth dyed it is callyd grasynge perfyte. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Grasynge of clothes, whiche is settinge the grounde coloure, sublitio. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Sublition, a plaistering, or daubing underneath, in painting it is the grasing, or laying the ground colour under the perfect colour. 3. The action or process of covering land, an area, etc., with grass or turf; frequently with over, down. Also: the action or process of becoming covered with grass; chiefly with over. ΚΠ 1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour xxxiii. 101 I have often heard of..another sort of speedy grassing, which is this. They sow their ground with seed of claver-grass, a very small quantitie on an acre, and in some places they mow it twice in a year, yet never sow it but once. 1853 H. P. Andrews Let. 8 Nov. 9 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (1854) (33rd Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Exec. Doc. 31) V The grassing over of the seaward slope. 1861 N.-Y. Observer 1 Aug. 248/1 Cultivate the ground until you get it in a proper condition for grassing down. 1907 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 18 335 With a wide flood-plain comes a general grassing of the bluffs. 1968 Commonw. Forestry Rev. 47 105 Here the influence of a higher rainfall was immediately obvious in the grassing over of the runways. 1996 M. S. Northcott Environment & Christian Ethics (2001) i. 35 Today in both the North and the South there is a great groundswell of popular protest..at the tarmacking or grassing over of forests, wetlands and highland areas. 2010 Times of India (Nexis) 29 Nov. The protesters claimed that the court order only allows the grassing of the land without affecting the contours of the heritage structure and the lake. 4. The action or process of laying out cloth or textile fibres, esp. flax or hemp, on grass to bleach in the sunlight. Cf. grass v. 5a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [noun] > bleaching > bleaching by exposure insolation1617 grassing1705 croft-bleaching1875 1705 L. Crommelin Ess. Improving Hempen & Flaxen Manuf. iii. 20 When the Season offers for watering and grassing, you must pursue exactly the like rules I have already given in reference to the Female Hemp. 1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 121 The grassing [of hemp] requires about five weeks. 1844 J. Sproule Ess. Flax Ireland (1846) 23 Too little watering is given in this country, trusting to the grassing afterwards to make up the deficiency. 1893 Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists 26 Dec. 216/2 The object of the process is to avoid the ‘grassing’, which in winter time is so tedious. 1939 Dyestuffs June 35/2 One of the oldest uses of the ultraviolet rays..is in the ‘grassing’ of linen piece-goods for the production of a pure and permanent white. 2007 K. J. Nielson Interior Textiles 90/2 Sun bleaching is a historical treatment for lightening linen or cotton textiles by laying the gray goods or the finished cloth, if it is white, ‘on the green’ for ten to fourteen days... This is sometimes called grassing. †5. Printing slang. The undertaking of work on a casual or temporary basis by a compositor. Obsolete. Cf. grass v. 8, grass n.¹ 11. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > casual work smooting1683 grassing1875 grass1888 1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 44 Many compositors earn a good income by grassing. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 54 Grassing, a compositor taking occasional jobs, or assisting on a newspaper. 1915 Amer. Printer 5 Nov. 318/1 The overtime and dinner hour and casual engagement and Sunday newspaper work and Saturday ‘grassing’ (or casual newspaper work) were also considered at the conference. 6. British colloquial (originally Criminals' slang). The action of informing on someone to the police or (later more widely) another person, an authority, etc. Cf. grass v. 9. ΚΠ 1943 J. Phelan Lett. from Big House ii. 28 He'll be too fed up to do any real grassing. 1955 R. Croft-Cooke Verdict of you All xi. 194 Scarcely less detested were men suspected of grassing in the prison itself. 1980 Contemp. Rev. June 314 The original payoffs for grassing are no years or eight years in jail, depending on the behaviour of the other prisoner. 1991 Independent (Nexis) 9 May (Education section) 23 The reality is that ‘grassing’ is the worst crime in the bully's book. 2010 Evening Standard (Nexis) 14 Oct. Witness Confident also hopes to challenge the notion that talking to police is ‘grassing’. Compounds General attributive, as grassing method, grassing season, grassing work, etc. ΚΠ 1802 Morning Post 17 July (advt.) The occupier may be accommodated with a sufficient quantity of rich grassing land within a convenient distance. 1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Caithness vii. 137 Were the Caithness farmers to keep their flax unwatered until the month of June,..the grassing operation would be executed without any risk from frost. 1880 G. Webster Criminal Officer 38 I haena seen a better girsin' sizzon for years. 1886 Manch. Guardian 26 Feb. 6/4 The Government sought to restore the old grassing rights of the crofters. 1971 Country Life 25 Nov. 1452/2 The Halliwells were among the first to use chlorine gas for bleaching in place of the old ‘grassing’ process. 1990 A. Bil Shieling, 1600–1840 xii. 214 A temporary lowering of grassing rents. 2004 Golf Course Managem. May 86/3 There were no big rains while the grassing work was being done. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1479
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