单词 | hogging |
释义 | hoggingn. 1. The action of hog v.1 (in various senses); the result of this. ΚΠ 1664 T. Allin Jrnl. 21 Dec. (1939) (modernized text) I. 193 We moored and went to hogging, but meeting with rubs in our sheathing we desisted. 1778 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. II. 305 The lambs that I intend for hogging, in order to keep up the stock, are marked early in the summer. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World V. x. 1726 Remaining part somewhat resembled the crest of their caps, or that which, in horses manes, is called hogging. 1839 J. Davy Coll. Wks. H. Davy v. 291 By applying some very simple method of cleaning (I believe called ‘hogging’), the adhering weeds, &c. were removed. 1884 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Oct. 17/2 The ‘hogging’ of the mane..varies in style from the Arab. 1935 Philos. Rev. 44 350 To infer..that everything which is not immediate experience is not known in a proper and important sense of the term is either dogmatism or the hogging of a term. 1988 Courier-Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 30 Sept. To keep the horse looking good, hogging must be done every four to six weeks. 2000 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 29 July e1 The bride who really didn't want to marry a millionaire continues her shameless hogging of the spotlight . 2. a. Nautical. With reference to a ship, its keel, etc.: the action or fact of arching upwards in the middle and drooping at the ends as a result of physical forces, a fracture, excess weight, etc.; an instance of this. Cf. hog v.1 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > downwards curvature > drooping at ends hogging1765 1765 M. Murray Suppl. 31 in Treat. Ship-building & Navigation (ed. 2) He [sc. Bouguer]..considers, whether the common methods are sufficient for preventing a ship's hogging or cambring. 1791 W. Hutchinson Treat. Best Form Merchant's Ships 45 The only and best place to fix the ship's Form-Gage, where either the hogging, or sagging of her bottom may be observed and seen soonest and best. 1842 T. Metcalf Rep. Supreme Court Mass. 2 145 The damage from the hogging and strain was estimated from $800 to $1000. 1891 Athenæum 22 Aug. 257/3 Longitudinal strains, or hogging, being..as often the cause of leakage in a long, heavily-timbered, carvel-built ship. 1901 Times 14 Nov. 12 Neither hogging nor sagging could account for the disaster. 1964 E. T. Adney & H. I. Chappelle Bark Canoes & Skin Boats N. Amer. vi. 162/1 This method of building usually produced a slight hogging in both bottom and in the sheer amidships, but when the canoe was afloat and loaded the light, flexible construction caused the hogging to disappear. 1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 May 527/3 The operation of the undergirths or hypozomata, longitudinal cables inside the ship to prevent hogging, will be of particular interest. b. Engineering and Building. An upward arching of a beam or other structure that is designed to be horizontal. ΚΠ 1855 D. K. Clark Railway Machinery I. 266/1 Hogging is partially caused by the frame being unequally supported by the springs. 1889 E. Edwards Amer. Steam Engineer 72 The so-called hogging of a boiler tube has been observed by applying three gauge rods attached at equal distances along the crown of the tube. 1911 W. S. Hutton Pract. Engineer's Hand-bk. (ed. 7) 214 The expansion is accommodated by the arching or hogging of the tube. 1997 J. Hinks & G. Cook Technol. Building Defects viii. 164 The symptoms of central hogging include vertical (tensile) cracking of the building, which increases in width across the height of the building. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > surface > arch of surface hogging1860 camber1905 1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Hoggin or Hogging, the term used by workmen for the curved form given to the cross section of a roadway to throw off the surface water. Compounds hogging moment n. Engineering a moment (moment n. 8b) that tends to produce hogging. ΚΠ 1871 Proc. Royal Soc. 19 294 He afterwards shows..that between two sections of maximum ‘hogging’-moment there must fall either a section of minimum hogging-moment or a section of maximum ‘sagging’-moment. 1956 W. Merchant & A. Bolton Introd. Theory Structures v. 75 If moments are applied at both ends then the net effect is due to their difference and the increase is at the end having the bigger hogging moment. 1991 Highways & Transportation Sept. 8/1 The assessment recommended a 7.5 tonne weight restriction. This was due to inadequacies in flexural hogging moment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hoggingadj. Chiefly Nautical. Of a ship, its keel, etc.: that arches upwards in the middle and droops at the bow and stern. See hog v.1 2b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [adjective] > drooping at ends hogged1760 hogging1897 1897 G. K. S. Moncrieff Princ. Structural Design I. iv. 77 The beam is..convex or hogging from g to a. 1967 E. Stenoroth in B. Broberg et al. Recent Progress in Applied Mechanics 543 It is reasonable to permit higher still water stresses in slender and hogging vessels than in fuller and sagging vessels. 1975 J. Gould Maine Lingo 231/2 Anything old, past its use, misshapen, toppling, etc., is rimwracked in Maine parlance until the word is even applied to a hogging boat. 2001 Proc. 14th Internat. Ship & Offshore Structures Congr. 3 133 This ship is a ‘hogging ship’ and its static strength will most likely be fully utilized with high tensile stresses in the deck. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1664adj.1897 |
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