layingn.

/ˈleɪɪŋ/

Etymology: < lay v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of lay v.¹ in various senses; putting, setting, placing, fixing, esp. in a designed position; †assessment, taxation; †accouchement; etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun]

layingc1330

pitchinga1398

settinga1398

couchingc1400

stowingc1440

placingc1449

stelling1560

disposition1563

location1568

planting1585

situation1589

collocation1605

situating1611

disposurea1625

depositure1635

allodgement1639

instalment1646

fixation1652

deposition1659

lodgement1713

repositing1713

emplacement1742

bestowal1773

locating1774

disposal1828

placement1844

allocation1846

enlodgement1884

siting1902

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 261 Þe lond fulle hard was sette in þat ilk laying.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 294/2 Leyynge of a thynge, posicio.

1472–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 644 Pro le laynge fusi et rynde molendini [cf. lay v.¹ 36].

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. (1482) ccxliii. 290 Anone he leyd his ordynaunce and in the leyng of a gonne come a quarell and smote the good Erle Edmond in the hede.

1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 13 The..openyng and newe leying of old Ropes.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxlv To reise the siege, at the layeng whereof he was counsayler & partener.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Proposition d' erreur, a Writ, or the laying, of Error.

1611 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 63 Item payed for laying of thre hoggs, vj d.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §669 Another ill Accident is Laying of Corne with great Raines in Haruest.

1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 59 Circumposition is a kind of laying..In this the mould is born up to the bough which is to be taken off.

1662 S. Pepys Diary 25 May (1970) III. 92 They do say, there are some plots in laying.

1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 53 The laying of the Church Rate ought to be according to the Lands and the Stock.

1796 Encycl. Brit. (Dublin ed.) XVI. 485/1 The operation of uniting them [i.e. strands of a rope] with a permanent twist is called laying.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 373 Laying consists in spreading a single coat of lime and hair all over a ceiling and partition.

1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 112 No. 6..attends stool bed, elevating screw and quoin in laying.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. iii. 136 Godard saw a female [Meloe] deposit in two layings 2212 eggs.

b. with adverbs or adverbial phr. (see lay v.¹ Phrasal verbs).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > smearing or spreading with a substance

daubing1393

laying1496

gumming1580

slubbering1582

spreading1601

smearing1611

circumlition1656

oblimation1656

delinition1664

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun]

burying1297

sepulture1297

intermentc1330

gravingc1340

interring1387

terment1389

earthinga1400

sepulchrea1425

burial1453

inter1513

entombing1564

sepultary1581

laying1604

tumulation1623

humation1635

inhumation1636

sepelition1637

entombment1666

tombing1818

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > laying up in a place

stowage1390

stowingc1440

repositure1657

reposition1709

laying1726

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying out

streeking1777

laying1843

1496 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 174 Mappes for layng on of piche Rosyn & talow uppon the seid ship.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. iv. 14 Leyinge on of the hondes of a seniour.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras viii. 51 Because of the layenges awayte.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Nucillus in Panoplie Epist. 240 In the dispensing or laying out of your goods.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 162 We haue many pockie corses, that will scarce hold the laying in.

a1619 E. M. Wingfield Disc. Virginia in Trans. Amer. Antiq. Soc. (1860) 4 101 I misliked his leying out of our towne.

a1659 F. Osborne Misc. (1673) 603 Her Comings-in are Mathematically adjusted to her Layings-out.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 76/1 Ware-houses or Vaults for the laying up of Goods.

1817 J. Keats Let. in Wks. (1889) III. 76 One of my chief layings-up is the pleasure I shall have in showing it to you.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xix. 236 She went to a lying-in or a laying-out with equal zest and relish.

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xx. 429 The laying-off of the ship is proceeded with simultaneously with the preparation of the model.

1879 T. H. S. Escott England I. 60 The laying down of main roads.

1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 21 The erection of fortifications, and the laying out of streets.

1900 Daily News 20 Sept. 6/2 The stoppage of coal traffic, and the consequent laying off of railway coal train crews.

1968 Listener 4 July 24/1 Nowadays in the US redundancy can mean displacement for good; then it was, at worst, a long laying-off.

1970 Nature 21 Nov. 709/2 Layings-off are, of course, nothing unusual in the volatile aerospace industry.

2. concrete.

a. What is laid, in various senses of the verb.

ΚΠ

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. vii. 417 Alle byrdes that ben lyke to Culuores..laye not the thyrde tyme but whan the seconde layenge is corrupte and dystroyed.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 304 Having laid down his Dry Laying, he takes another Quire off the Dry Heap.

b. A layer, bed, stratum.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun]

leyne?c1390

flake1577

lain1577

lay1588

stratum1599

bed1600

layer1615

strata1676

floor1692

laying1703

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 205 You must..cover with Sand every Laying, or Bed of Lime.

c. An oyster bed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > breeding oysters > oyster-bed

oyster-leyne1581

oyster bed1591

stew1610

greening-pit1667

layer1735

laying1837

park1867

plantation1881

hive1882

claire1901

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > oyster bed

scalp?15..

oyster bed1591

oyster bank1612

layer1667

oyster-lay1703

oyster-laying1761

oyster bar1823

laying1837

oyster park1862

oysterage1866

oyster field1868

lay1902

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iii. iii. 30 The oysters..are deposited for a while in beds or layings in the adjoining creeks.

1863 C. R. Markham in Intellectual Observer IV. 624 The brood [oysters two years old] are dredged up out at sea, and placed on layings within the river Colne.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Layings, a sort of pavement of culch, on the mud of estuaries, for forming a bed for oysters.

1960 C. M. Yonge Oysters ix. 154 The Colchester and other natural oyster beds and the layings along the Essex coast flourished exceedingly during the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries.

d. Building. (See quot. 1823.)

ΚΠ

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 391 Laying, in plastering.—The first coat on lath of two-coat plaster, or set-work.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

laying-place n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > that lays > place for laying eggs

laying-place1864

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ix. 77 The favourite laying-place of several discreet hens.

C2.

laying-hook n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 55 Laying-Hook, the hook on which the strands are all hung together for laying or closing.

laying house n. (a) the house or building in which rope is ‘laid’ or made; (b) a building in which laying hens are kept.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > rope

ropery1329

rope-house1571

rope-yard1640

yarn-crofta1661

rope-work1663

rope-ground1665

ropewalk1671

walk1747

laying house1778

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > laying house, hatchery, etc.

rearing house1824

sitting room1850

hatchery1857

brooding-room1884

eggery1910

laying house1913

battery1931

1778 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) at Portsmouth The fire was first seen to burst through the roof of the laying-house.

1913 H. R. Lewis Productive Poultry Husbandry vii. 128 (heading) Plans and specifications of laying houses.

1962 L. E. Card Lippincott's Poultry Production (ed. 9) vii. 179 (caption) Interior of..laying house, showing tiered roofs.

laying-machine n. a machine for ‘laying’ strands into a rope.

ΚΠ

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1091 Captain Huddart constructed a laying-machine, which has carried his inventions in rope-making to the greatest perfection.

laying mash n. = laying meal n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food eaten by birds > poultry food

gobbetc1384

shack1536

patoun1600

cram1614

chicken meat1684

soilinga1825

chicken feed1843

cram-cake1888

laying meal1908

laying mash1926

Tottenham Pudding1944

balancer meal1950

balancer mash1955

1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Jan. 2/1 (advt.) Feed Prices..Laying Mash, sack $2.75.

1972 A. A. McArdle Poultry Managem. & Production (rev. ed.) xiv. 308 (heading) Quantity of laying mash and grain needed.

laying meal n. a special food for laying hens.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food eaten by birds > poultry food

gobbetc1384

shack1536

patoun1600

cram1614

chicken meat1684

soilinga1825

chicken feed1843

cram-cake1888

laying meal1908

laying mash1926

Tottenham Pudding1944

balancer meal1950

balancer mash1955

1908 Illustr. Poultry Rec. Oct. p. ix (advt.) Laying Meal 12/6 Cwt.

1935 Poultry Rec. Jan. (advt.) (inside cover) Alfalfa, Laying Meal, Grit, Shells etc.

laying-on table n. Printing a table from which the machine is fed.

ΚΠ

1849 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 719/2 On the gallery are seen eight men at so many ‘laying-on-tables’, feeding the machine.

laying-on tool n. Bookbinding the tool with which gold leaf is laid on the cover or the edge of a book.

ΚΠ

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Laying-on-tool, a bookbinder's tool; a tip.

laying-out mark n. Nautical (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 65 The lower and topsail yards are generally marked with a white band of paint round them,..called laying-out marks.

laying-press n. Bookbinding a press in which books are held while their edges are being cut (also called lying-press).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > other equipment

backing-board1741

runner1818

sewing-frame1818

trindle1818

laying-press1835

gathering-table1841

gathering-board1874

pressing board1875

lying-press1876

1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia 172 The cutting or laying press is formed of two strong cheeks of timber, connected together with two wooden screws and two square pins.

laying-tool n. a plasterer's trowel (see quot. 1825).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > plasterer's tools > spreading tools

float1700

laying-trowel1700

Darby1819

Derby1823

laying-tool1825

smoothing-trowel1825

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 606 The laying and smoothing tool consists of a flat piece of hardened iron, about ten inches in length, and two inches and a half wide, very thin, and ground to a semicircular shape at one end, but left square at the other.

laying-top n. a grooved conical piece of wood placed between the strands in ‘laying’ a rope, a top n.¹ and adj.

ΚΠ

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1073 In laying cables, torsion must be given both behind and before the laying top.

laying-trowel n. = laying-tool n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > plasterer's tools > spreading tools

float1700

laying-trowel1700

Darby1819

Derby1823

laying-tool1825

smoothing-trowel1825

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 12 A Laying Trowel, to lay the Lime and Hair withall upon the Laths, it being larger than a Brick Trowel, and fastned [to] its handle in a different manner.

laying-walk n. that part of a rope-walk in which the rope is laid.

ΚΠ

1778 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) at Portsmouth The rope~makers' laying-walk and tarring-walk.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	laying
释义	layingn. /ˈleɪɪŋ/ Etymology: < lay v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of lay v.¹ in various senses; putting, setting, placing, fixing, esp. in a designed position; †assessment, taxation; †accouchement; etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] layingc1330 pitchinga1398 settinga1398 couchingc1400 stowingc1440 placingc1449 stelling1560 disposition1563 location1568 planting1585 situation1589 collocation1605 situating1611 disposurea1625 depositure1635 allodgement1639 instalment1646 fixation1652 deposition1659 lodgement1713 repositing1713 emplacement1742 bestowal1773 locating1774 disposal1828 placement1844 allocation1846 enlodgement1884 siting1902 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 261 Þe lond fulle hard was sette in þat ilk laying. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 294/2 Leyynge of a thynge, posicio. 1472–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 644 Pro le laynge fusi et rynde molendini [cf. lay v.¹ 36]. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. (1482) ccxliii. 290 Anone he leyd his ordynaunce and in the leyng of a gonne come a quarell and smote the good Erle Edmond in the hede. 1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 13 The..openyng and newe leying of old Ropes. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxlv To reise the siege, at the layeng whereof he was counsayler & partener. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Proposition d' erreur, a Writ, or the laying, of Error. 1611 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 63 Item payed for laying of thre hoggs, vj d. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §669 Another ill Accident is Laying of Corne with great Raines in Haruest. 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 59 Circumposition is a kind of laying..In this the mould is born up to the bough which is to be taken off. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 25 May (1970) III. 92 They do say, there are some plots in laying. 1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 53 The laying of the Church Rate ought to be according to the Lands and the Stock. 1796 Encycl. Brit. (Dublin ed.) XVI. 485/1 The operation of uniting them [i.e. strands of a rope] with a permanent twist is called laying. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 373 Laying consists in spreading a single coat of lime and hair all over a ceiling and partition. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 112 No. 6..attends stool bed, elevating screw and quoin in laying. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. iii. 136 Godard saw a female [Meloe] deposit in two layings 2212 eggs. b. with adverbs or adverbial phr. (see lay v.¹ Phrasal verbs). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > smearing or spreading with a substance daubing1393 laying1496 gumming1580 slubbering1582 spreading1601 smearing1611 circumlition1656 oblimation1656 delinition1664 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] burying1297 sepulture1297 intermentc1330 gravingc1340 interring1387 terment1389 earthinga1400 sepulchrea1425 burial1453 inter1513 entombing1564 sepultary1581 laying1604 tumulation1623 humation1635 inhumation1636 sepelition1637 entombment1666 tombing1818 the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > laying up in a place stowage1390 stowingc1440 repositure1657 reposition1709 laying1726 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying out streeking1777 laying1843 1496 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 174 Mappes for layng on of piche Rosyn & talow uppon the seid ship. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. iv. 14 Leyinge on of the hondes of a seniour. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras viii. 51 Because of the layenges awayte. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Nucillus in Panoplie Epist. 240 In the dispensing or laying out of your goods. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 162 We haue many pockie corses, that will scarce hold the laying in. View more context for this quotation a1619 E. M. Wingfield Disc. Virginia in Trans. Amer. Antiq. Soc. (1860) 4 101 I misliked his leying out of our towne. a1659 F. Osborne Misc. (1673) 603 Her Comings-in are Mathematically adjusted to her Layings-out. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 76/1 Ware-houses or Vaults for the laying up of Goods. 1817 J. Keats Let. in Wks. (1889) III. 76 One of my chief layings-up is the pleasure I shall have in showing it to you. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xix. 236 She went to a lying-in or a laying-out with equal zest and relish. 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xx. 429 The laying-off of the ship is proceeded with simultaneously with the preparation of the model. 1879 T. H. S. Escott England I. 60 The laying down of main roads. 1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 21 The erection of fortifications, and the laying out of streets. 1900 Daily News 20 Sept. 6/2 The stoppage of coal traffic, and the consequent laying off of railway coal train crews. 1968 Listener 4 July 24/1 Nowadays in the US redundancy can mean displacement for good; then it was, at worst, a long laying-off. 1970 Nature 21 Nov. 709/2 Layings-off are, of course, nothing unusual in the volatile aerospace industry. 2. concrete. a. What is laid, in various senses of the verb. ΚΠ 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. vii. 417 Alle byrdes that ben lyke to Culuores..laye not the thyrde tyme but whan the seconde layenge is corrupte and dystroyed. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 304 Having laid down his Dry Laying, he takes another Quire off the Dry Heap. b. A layer, bed, stratum. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun] leyne?c1390 flake1577 lain1577 lay1588 stratum1599 bed1600 layer1615 strata1676 floor1692 laying1703 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 205 You must..cover with Sand every Laying, or Bed of Lime. c. An oyster bed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > breeding oysters > oyster-bed oyster-leyne1581 oyster bed1591 stew1610 greening-pit1667 layer1735 laying1837 park1867 plantation1881 hive1882 claire1901 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > oyster bed scalp?15.. oyster bed1591 oyster bank1612 layer1667 oyster-lay1703 oyster-laying1761 oyster bar1823 laying1837 oyster park1862 oysterage1866 oyster field1868 lay1902 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iii. iii. 30 The oysters..are deposited for a while in beds or layings in the adjoining creeks. 1863 C. R. Markham in Intellectual Observer IV. 624 The brood [oysters two years old] are dredged up out at sea, and placed on layings within the river Colne. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Layings, a sort of pavement of culch, on the mud of estuaries, for forming a bed for oysters. 1960 C. M. Yonge Oysters ix. 154 The Colchester and other natural oyster beds and the layings along the Essex coast flourished exceedingly during the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries. d. Building. (See quot. 1823.) ΚΠ 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 391 Laying, in plastering.—The first coat on lath of two-coat plaster, or set-work. Compounds C1. General attributive. laying-place n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > that lays > place for laying eggs laying-place1864 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ix. 77 The favourite laying-place of several discreet hens. C2. laying-hook n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 55 Laying-Hook, the hook on which the strands are all hung together for laying or closing. laying house n. (a) the house or building in which rope is ‘laid’ or made; (b) a building in which laying hens are kept. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > rope ropery1329 rope-house1571 rope-yard1640 yarn-crofta1661 rope-work1663 rope-ground1665 ropewalk1671 walk1747 laying house1778 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > laying house, hatchery, etc. rearing house1824 sitting room1850 hatchery1857 brooding-room1884 eggery1910 laying house1913 battery1931 1778 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) at Portsmouth The fire was first seen to burst through the roof of the laying-house. 1913 H. R. Lewis Productive Poultry Husbandry vii. 128 (heading) Plans and specifications of laying houses. 1962 L. E. Card Lippincott's Poultry Production (ed. 9) vii. 179 (caption) Interior of..laying house, showing tiered roofs. laying-machine n. a machine for ‘laying’ strands into a rope. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1091 Captain Huddart constructed a laying-machine, which has carried his inventions in rope-making to the greatest perfection. laying mash n. = laying meal n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food eaten by birds > poultry food gobbetc1384 shack1536 patoun1600 cram1614 chicken meat1684 soilinga1825 chicken feed1843 cram-cake1888 laying meal1908 laying mash1926 Tottenham Pudding1944 balancer meal1950 balancer mash1955 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Jan. 2/1 (advt.) Feed Prices..Laying Mash, sack $2.75. 1972 A. A. McArdle Poultry Managem. & Production (rev. ed.) xiv. 308 (heading) Quantity of laying mash and grain needed. laying meal n. a special food for laying hens. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food eaten by birds > poultry food gobbetc1384 shack1536 patoun1600 cram1614 chicken meat1684 soilinga1825 chicken feed1843 cram-cake1888 laying meal1908 laying mash1926 Tottenham Pudding1944 balancer meal1950 balancer mash1955 1908 Illustr. Poultry Rec. Oct. p. ix (advt.) Laying Meal 12/6 Cwt. 1935 Poultry Rec. Jan. (advt.) (inside cover) Alfalfa, Laying Meal, Grit, Shells etc. laying-on table n. Printing a table from which the machine is fed. ΚΠ 1849 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 719/2 On the gallery are seen eight men at so many ‘laying-on-tables’, feeding the machine. laying-on tool n. Bookbinding the tool with which gold leaf is laid on the cover or the edge of a book. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Laying-on-tool, a bookbinder's tool; a tip. laying-out mark n. Nautical (see quot.). ΚΠ 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 65 The lower and topsail yards are generally marked with a white band of paint round them,..called laying-out marks. laying-press n. Bookbinding a press in which books are held while their edges are being cut (also called lying-press). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > other equipment backing-board1741 runner1818 sewing-frame1818 trindle1818 laying-press1835 gathering-table1841 gathering-board1874 pressing board1875 lying-press1876 1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia 172 The cutting or laying press is formed of two strong cheeks of timber, connected together with two wooden screws and two square pins. laying-tool n. a plasterer's trowel (see quot. 1825). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > plasterer's tools > spreading tools float1700 laying-trowel1700 Darby1819 Derby1823 laying-tool1825 smoothing-trowel1825 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 606 The laying and smoothing tool consists of a flat piece of hardened iron, about ten inches in length, and two inches and a half wide, very thin, and ground to a semicircular shape at one end, but left square at the other. laying-top n. a grooved conical piece of wood placed between the strands in ‘laying’ a rope, a top n.¹ and adj. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1073 In laying cables, torsion must be given both behind and before the laying top. laying-trowel n. = laying-tool n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > plasterer's tools > spreading tools float1700 laying-trowel1700 Darby1819 Derby1823 laying-tool1825 smoothing-trowel1825 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 12 A Laying Trowel, to lay the Lime and Hair withall upon the Laths, it being larger than a Brick Trowel, and fastned [to] its handle in a different manner. laying-walk n. that part of a rope-walk in which the rope is laid. ΚΠ 1778 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) at Portsmouth The rope~makers' laying-walk and tarring-walk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022). layingadj. /ˈleɪɪŋ/ Etymology: < lay v.¹ + -ing suffix². That lays: chiefly said of hens. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [adjective] > of or like a hen > laying or about to lay laying1591 eggy1901 point of lay1941 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Ponedera gallina A laying hen. 1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story ii, in Harper's Mag. Jan. 288/2 I can keep my laying hens warm even in zero weather. 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