单词 | mudding |
释义 | muddingn.1 1. a. The action of making something muddy; = muddying n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > qualities of liquid > turbidity or muddiness drublinessc1440 troubledness?1527 troubliness?1527 mudding1632 muddinessa1667 turbidness1676 turbidity1782 turbescency1834 troubling1842 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > cladding or covering with other materials claying?1523 mudding1632 sanding1670 sodding1688 fogging1704 slatinga1884 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A mudding, beraying with, or sticking in mudde, embourbement, enfangement. 1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 238 The mudding of their purest Fountaine. 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xvii. 100 And in thy Tillage are these speciall Opportunities to Improve it,..by Liming, Marling,..Mudding, Snayle-codding. 1895 H. P. Robinson in Forum (N.Y.) Jan. 528 The mudding of the stream in Æsop's fable. b. Chiefly Canadian. The filling of cracks in the walls of a house or log cabin with mud. Also concrete: the mud itself. ΚΠ 1839 T. Shone Jrnl. 15 Jan. (1992) 82 After breakfast I finished the muding [sic] of the [roof] ridge. 1871 A. Begg Dot it Down 145 Jack, Tom, and George Wade soon became initiated in the mudding process, and in a day or two had the house and outbuildings looking very creditable. 1898 F. Russell Explor. Far North 2 The autumnal ‘mudding’ was poorly done. 1901 T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xx. 210 The hut that I stopped in was newly built, with only one coating of mudding on it. 1965 E. L. Myles Emperor of Peace River ii. iii. 209 On the exterior of the logs treatment was a must if the rooms were to be warm in winter. This treatment consisted of an annual ‘mudding’, the forcing into the chinks between the logs of a mixture of mud and straw. 2000 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) Aug. 11 b 4 Asbestos was found in the building's lower level, in the mudding on the heating pipe elbows. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] entailc1300 sculpture1390 carving1531 engraving1552 statuary1563 engravery1566 insculption1599 scalpture1656 tomice1662 manusculpture1704 tooling1815 sculpturing1842 sculpting1876 mudding1892 machine sculpture1970 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker Prol. 6 ‘The daubs are mine—and his; the mudding mine.’ ‘Mudding? What is that?’ asked Havens. ‘These bronzes,’ replied Dodd. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). MUDdingn.2 Computing. The playing of MUD computer games; this activity as a pastime or interest. ΚΠ 1990 Re: need Help in joining & starting TinyMUD in alt.mud (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Jan. Happy MUDding! 1993 Communications ACM 36 74 MUDDING: Social phenomenon in text-based virtual realities. 1994 Daily Tel. 13 Dec. 14/6 Fewer still have the time or inclination to forfeit a night out in front of the computer going MUDding—Internet jargon for playing Multi-User Dungeon Adventure games. 1998 E. Davis TechGnosis (1999) vii. 223 We return from a night of MUDding or netlust with aching eyes, sore wrists, and often a vaguely hollow feeling of spent life force. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11632n.21990 |
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