holingn.
/ˈhəʊlɪŋ/ 1. attributive.1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 588 The slit or holing-in method of planting is used.
a. The action of making a hole or holes. Also, the production of holes, e.g. in garments (cf. hole v.1 8).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun]
holing1398
fenestration1870
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) viii. v. 303 The Ether..neyther maye be departed by thyrlynge and hoolynge of a nother body.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) iv. 10 Some tyme is suche holiyng and perforacion goode.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 126 The holeing, digging, gripping, ditching, hacking, and hand-beating.
1910 Daily Chron. 14 Mar. 6/4 The Stockings that are actually insured against holing.
b. The action of undercutting a coal-seam.
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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
1841 Collieries & Coal Trade (ed. 2) 249 When the workman has been for some time engaged in what is termed ‘holing under’.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 66/2 The process of holing in coal is one of the severest kinds of human labour.
c. Golf. The action of holing the ball; also attributive, as holing distance, holing-out putt.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > holing the ball
holing1875
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) 695/1 He who succeeds in holeing in fewer strokes than his opponent wins that hole.
1901 Scotsman 11 Sept. 10/1 A nicely-played mashie stroke took his ball within holing distance.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 4/2 The longer holing-out putts.
1972 Country Life 7 Dec. 1600/3 As often as not, the ball would finish within likely holing distance.
2. concrete. The stuff underlying a coal (or other) seam picked out to undermine it.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [noun] > material below
holing-stuff1819
floor1869
holing1882
undergoing1883
1882 Nature 27 July 299 The bottom bed—7 inches thick—together with a bed of soft shale 10 inches thick, serves as a holing.
1887 Glasgow Herald 8 Dec. The managers agreed that deficiency should mean water, up-throws, down-throws, long roads, hard holing, ‘lights’, crowning roads, extra backing of shale, and low shale.
1890 Goldfields of Victoria 65 Soft black clay (holing)..1 inch.
1892 Royal Comm. Labour: Digest of Evid. before Group A I. Gloss. 80 in Parl. Papers (C. 6708–I) XXIV. 5 Hard Holing, hard strata underneath the coal which has to be holed or curved.
Compounds
attributive, as holing-axe n., holing-stuff n. (see quots.).
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [noun] > material below
holing-stuff1819
floor1869
holing1882
undergoing1883
society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > axe > [noun] > other axes
bole-axc1175
flesh-axe1424
stybill?a1500
brake-axe1590
holing-axe1819
side axe1871
hammer-axe1927
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XVIII Holeing-stuff,..the small earth or coals which is cut or picked out from under the coal in a pit.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Holing-ax, a narrow ax for cutting holes in posts.
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 58 Pecking out the holeing stuff with a light and sharp tool.
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