?a1450 ( J. Lydgate Serpent of Division (McClean) (1911) 64 (MED) With a sodeyne stroke of þe fire leuene, the firste lettre of his name, C, was smete away..to schewe openly þat þe racynge away of his lettre bi violens of þe levene, þat he..schulde..be vengeably mordered.

1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health i. f. 8^v A waxed threede was fastened about that place..for the strayghter and euener racing of the Glasse.

1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §56 C ij b Ingrossed in paper or parchment, without blotting, racing, interlyning.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 367 They condemned in a grievous fine the Poet Phrymchus, for that he represented in a Tragedie the winning and racing of the citie Miletus.

1633 J. Hart Κλινικη iii. ix. 264 By meanes of scarification or racing of the skinne.

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iii. 61 The cause why the King took this course was this, lest if be written the racing of the Fortification, in his letter it might have come to the French-mens knowledge.

1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. iii. 32 To recite the particular Cases upon record, concerning racing of Records, Forgeries, and other crimes of falshood.

1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Racer Racer, or Rutter, a cutting implement used in racing or marking out the proper width, length, and thickness of grass turfs for gardens.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 8 Race, to mark, by the edges of moulds, with a racing knife or points of compasses, upon timber, &c.

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXIX Race, the mark made on timber, &c. by a tool called a racing-knife.

1851 Flower, Fruit & Kitchen Garden 42/2 Of ringing,..it should be done during the summer, as then, if performed on young wood, no injury ensues; a common racing knife is the most convenient for this purpose.

1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks iii. 74 All Greece shall gladly celebrate our fames, Leaving th' Olympicke, and Nemæan games, With racing and the whorlebat sight, whilest I Crown'd with a tender branch of Olive tree My offerings bring.

1683 Markham's Master-piece Revived (ed. 11) (title page) Containing Methods for the Training of Horses up for Racing, with their Heats and Courses.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. iv. 50 Horses..employed in Travelling, Racing, or drawing Chariots..were treated with much Kindness.

1754 Pond's Racing Cal. p. xxxii Rules concerning Racing in general, with a Description of a Post and Handy-Cap Match.

1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xii. 260 There was racing, and chasing, on Cannobie Lee.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 194 Yet gaming, racing, drinking,..bring them down.

1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 221/2 The Turbinia has been run..in almost all states of the sea, and on no occasion has the slightest symptom of racing occurred.

1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 432 There are three principal kinds of ice skates: those for figure-skating, for hockey, and for racing.

1969 J. Singer et al. tr. I. B. Singer Estate i. vii. 90 The stallions that are used for racing are not allowed to go near a mare.

1980 G. M. Fraser Mr American xviii. 336 Pip's method of travel was..constant racing of the engine.

1989 Sunday Times Mag. 23 July 33/2 There will be no members of the Royal Corinthian..idly watching the racing out on the ruffled waters of the Solent.

2006 SuperBike June 53/2 Statistically racing is safer than riding [motor cycles] on the road.

1871 Aris's Birmingham Gaz. 8 July 2/3 (advt.) First-Class 40-inch Racing Bicycle, to be sold cheap.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 191 Who's teacher's pet boy and was given a racing bicycle?

2006 Enniscorthy (County Wexford) Guardian (Nexis) 19 Oct. The club has a number of racing bicycles available for anyone interested in taking up cycling.

1895 Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, New S. Wales) 19 Mar. 5/5 At Chicago show a racing ‘bike’ was on view which only weighed nine pounds, but cost a hundred.

1897 Marshfield (Wisconsin) Times 16 July 1/1 The track is in excellent shape... Although there are several racing bikes on the ground, one in particular is a beauty.

1977 J. Cheever Falconer 181 The seat of his pants would bark his asshole like the saddle of a racing bike.

2006 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 12 Nov. 16 The sales guy was trying to sell me an expensive racing bike, like those used in the Tour De France.

1829 Times 28 July 3/2 They then went to the Regent 120 gun-ship..and waited for the return of the racing-boats.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 68 The flooring, lines, and keel of a racing boat.

1996 City Paper (Baltimore) 22 May 31/1 Crewing on racing boats is a cheap thrill, a sailing experience entirely different from owning a racing boat.

1839 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 9 443 We are all to ride horses except one, who rides the dhulúl or racing camel.

1961 S. Hempstone Africa, Angry Young Giant 344 You may be lucky enough to spot the Cadillac of the breed, the acorn-red mehara racing-camel.

2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 21 Apr. 15 Warwickshire is home to Britain's only herd of racing camels.

1867 J. Macgregor Rob Roy on Baltic App. 286 A long, narrow, light racing-canoe, with a long-spooned paddle.

1932 Man May 106 The coffin is placed in a large racing canoe.

1999 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 26 Sept. 41 In my racing canoe I have to compensate for the missing leg with stones to make sure I don't tip over.

1819 Times 23 Sept. 3/5 Hunters' stakes of 10 guineas each, for 4 year olds. To be rode by members of Foxhunting or Racing Clubs.

1908 N.Z. Truth 8 Feb. 2 It was a win for the racing clubs in general to know that there was a ‘scaler’ amongst the bookmakers at Pahiatua.

1993 Racing Post 20 Feb. 59/3 (advt.) A season with Jack Berry and the Laurel Racing Club costs only £65.

1778 Considerations on Breed & Managem. Horses 60 The breaking racing colts; indeed the whole management of them, till taken into training, is a pattern of good conduct.

1828 R. Darvill Treat. Race Horse 454 On breaking racing colts.

1957 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 57 737/1 A 40-year-old man, father of two small children, crushed his spine while training a racing colt.

2006 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Oct. 2 (headline) Win a share in a racing colt.

1895 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 1 May 1/6 As our racing correspondent pointed out..Dagmar is not what is called, in the old country, ‘very fashionably bred’.

1961 E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender iii. ii. 240 His brief experience as a racing correspondent seemed irrelevant to the zeitgeist.

1991 History Today Oct. 43/1 The racing correspondents of national newspapers.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 288/2 Osmond at his best on the Ordinary was riding when the rear-driver began to establish itself as a racing cycle.

1934 Times 13 Dec. 4/1 Experiments were being made for the purpose of getting a silencer which could be fitted to racing cycles.

2006 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 19 Aug. Rotorua police have a plan to protect the hundreds of valuable racing cycles in the city for the world mountain bike championships.

1886 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 4 Sept. See a young gray-haired racing cyclist spin round the track at the Springfield bicycle tournament.

1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1013/2 The breakaway,..racing cyclists' coll[oquial].

1991 Cycling Weekly 27 July 32/1 An investigative piece by William Leith seeking to find out why 18 Dutch and Belgian racing cyclists have died since 1987.

1903 Liverpool Echo 26 May 5/8 Mr. Stead..is Baron Henri de Rothschild's crack racing driver, and has taken a prominent part in motor racing since its inception.

1977 ‘D. Cory’ Bennett iii. 88 Shop girls identify themselves with film stars, bank clerks with racing drivers.

2002 Daily Tel. 2 Sept. 2/7 Two racing drivers died after their cars hit a trackside tyre wall.

1858 Times 3 Apr. 5/3 These barge-like boats..weighed twice or thrice as much as a racing eight of the present day.

1962 Times 13 Feb. 4/6 They have offered to build a racing eight by the hot-moulded method.

1998 Concept Culture (Concept II Ltd.) 6/1 Long streamlined racing eights powered by eight oarsmen working as one.

1811 J. Steele Let. 29 Jan. in Papers (1924) II. 649 There is nothing..which wd. afford me greater pleasure than to see a respectable racing establishment at this place.

1908 Times 27 Feb. 10/2 The King paid what was practically a surprise visit to Newmarket yesterday to inspect his racing establishment there.

2000 Guardian 11 July i. 20/8 Lever played his role in the racing establishment, rising from deputy senior steward in the Jockey Club to senior steward.

1842 Times 13 May 8/5 Ramsay and Royds..were drowned in the river about a fortnight since by the splitting open of a racing-gig in which they had been pleasuring.

1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 344/1 A long racing-gig swept by us.

1998 New Scientist 8 Aug. 17/3 A sulky—a light, one-man, two-wheeled racing gig pulled by a horse.

1874 Times 24 Feb. 11/3 A Racing Guide having been procured, it was discovered that a horse named Hermit had won the Two Thousand Guineas in 1854.

1909 A. L. Bruce Bridge-fiend 12 A peppery, red-faced old gentleman, who was reading a racing-guide..was then appealed to.

2007 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 10 Mar. 3 He whips his hand repeatedly with a rolled-up racing guide, then jumps in the air when his horse..wins.

1791 Ladies Ass-race 13 Ev'n his new racing-jacket, late so smart..Is stain'd most sadly with polluting gore.

1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton ix. 58 A racing-jacket, a pair of leathers and tops, a heavy handled-whip, and a shot-belt.

1929 Times 29 July 6/7 He threw off his leather racing jacket and in his shirt-sleeves began to push his machine round the track.

2002 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 Jan. (Life section) 17/3 Her haul..includes this year's must-have blue/black/white Dolce and Gabbana racing jacket.

1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xxxvi. 202 The woful experience of too many Racing-losers.

1996 Toronto Star (Nexis) 30 May os3 They returned with two racing losers. One of the dogs, Percy, woke at night screaming for the first two weeks after they brought him home.

1828 R. Darvill Treat. Race Horse 218 Racing men endeavour..to keep the secrets of their stables.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 8/3 I'm a racing man, and I've tipped on all the principal racecourses in England.

1980 D. Francis Reflex xvi. 193 He'd had some sort of standing..in racing men's eyes. Now he had none.

1901 North Adams (Mass.) Evening Transcript 5 Dec. He shortly afterward invested in a big racing motor car and went to the builders to bring it home himself.

1937 J. M. Bertram Crisis in China iv. 45 Despite the Young Marshal's Western clothes and racing motor-cars, he was only one generation removed from the Manchurian plainland.

1998 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 12 Oct. 13 Every one of the 185 cars there had contributed something to the development of the racing motorcar.

1904 Times 17 Oct. 8/6 There is also a feeling that something must really be done to make racing motorists treat their pastime more as a matter of sport and less as one of commerce.

1959 J. Cary Captive & Free xxvii. 124 He might have been a test pilot, a racing motorist, an explorer, a climber of Himalayan peaks.

2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Dec. 5 England's most famous racing motorist..became a household name with famous victories in the Mille Miglia, the Targa Florio, the Tourist Trophy and the British Grand Prix.

1866 ‘Argonaut’ Arts Rowing & Training 56 A regular racing outrigger may be substituted for the tub.

1927 Times 6 Jan. 23/2 A model of a Racing Outrigger Sculling Boat, Watches, Silver Toys, Seals, Trinkets, Brooches, &c.

2006 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 19 June e1 A racing outrigger cruises at 8 or 9 miles per hour.

1696 G. L. Gentleman's New Jockey (ed. 3) ii. i. 141 Ride him forth a Racing-pace, till you find his Joynts very plyable, which will be within a Mile or two riding.

1828 R. Darvill Treat. Race Horse 172 To come a long length at a racing pace.

1900 Field 8 Sept. 384/1 The value of the pacemaker as a mere leader who set a racing pace..was lost sight of when his utility as a wind-shield became recognized.

1994 Runner's World Feb. 31/3 Threshold runs: Runs of 5 to 20 minutes at a pace just a little slower than your 10-K racing pace.

1911 R. H. Davis Man who could not Lose 35 Carter..found her reading the Morning Telegraph. It was open at the racing page of ‘past performances’.

1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xiv. 156 I went to rest every afternoon with..the racing page of the daily paper.

1999 Odds On Feb. 52/2 Amongst Barbara's small pleasures are when, at the bookies, she finds the racing pages unmarked.

1877 Times 11 June 12/5 The Hon. Ion Keith-Falpath, who has been temporarily absent from the racing path, proved that he has by no means allowed his powers to rust.

2006 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 24 Sept. b1 Law..threw each of the wayward [rubber] ducks back onto the racing path in the artificial river.

1712 J. Henley tr. B. de Montfaucon Trav. Italy xx. 339 Between the Amphitheatre and the Racing-Place before the Septem folia.

1899 Times 11 Aug. 6/5 The large number of racing places served by this line, including Epsom, Ascot, Windsor, Kempton and Hurst Park.

2006 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 9 Apr. 4 i It's the tail end of cross-country skiing. There are several world-class cross-country racing places with trails.

1876 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 596/1 She was..as naively selfish as any healthy, handsome woman of fifty-five can be whose views of the relative value of sentient beings might be tabulated like a racing ‘result’. Self, ‘first’; Pet-dog ‘a bad second’; and the rest, ‘nowhere’.

1926 A. Huxley Jesting Pilate iii. 254 Racing results and bed-time stories.

1991 Independent 5 Jan. 45/1 There is a group of form addicts for whom making a dispassionate, empirical appraisal of a racing result is everything.

1885 Century Aug. 509/1 Racing-rigs much over one hundred square feet in size generally capsize the canoe in a race where there is much wind.

1906 J. Conrad Mirror of Sea viii. 39 Of those three varieties of fore-and-aft rig, the cutter—the racing rig par excellence—is of an appearance the most imposing.

2006 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 4 Feb. Unlike the cosy setups provided for road machines, these racing rigs provide little more than a platform for the passenger to hang on to.

1821 Edinb. Advertiser 27 Feb. 136/2 He had received a forged guinea note..in payment for a racing saddle.

1948 M. J. Bonn Wandering Scholar vii. 129 You'll come back with a face like an old racing saddle.

1991 Which? Aug. 441/3 The thin racing saddles allow the rider's legs to move freely when leaning forward.

1738 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 2) I. ii. 90 The Earl Godolphin has here a fine House on the very Summit of the Hill, to which his Lordship frequently resorts, especially in the Racing-Season.

1840 J. C. Whyte Hist. Turf II. 600 The conclusion of the racing season.

1999 BBC Top Gear Mag. June 109/1 Once the racing season finishes, the team go into winter testing in Spain to prepare for the next season.

1793 ‘A. Pasquin’ Life Late Earl of Barrymore (ed. 3) 61 The science of managing a racing stable.

1851 Times 4 Dec. 4/5 It is no business of ours to follow him to the racing-stable and betting-house.

2006 Times (Nexis) 14 Nov. 60 In his paddock he cut a fraught and restless silhouette, yearning for the sights and sounds of a racing stable.

1826 Times 5 Apr. 3/5 The celebrated racing stud of T. Pickerell, jun., Esq., will be brought to the hammer at Eastgrove, in the course of the present month.

1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xii. 126 The owner of a Kentucky racing stud directs the scientific breeding of his stock for the improvement of the whole.

2006 Windsor (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 12 Aug. e6 Several 2007 breedings to top racing studs are being offered.

1860 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 17 July The racing track on the new Fair grounds has been finished up in good style.

1946 Liberty 25 May 76/1 Alan's first home in California was a transients' auto camp near the Ascot racing track.

1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 34/4 (advt.) Tomy racing track, boxed, £20.

1892 Decatur (Illinois) Herald-Despatch 8 Oct. The prizes being, first a Remington type-writer; second, pair of pneumatic racing tires, and third, 100 cigars.

1914 Times 6 July 14/2 (advt.) The present day racing tyre is an abnormal type constructed especially to run short distances at a speed of from 75 to 100 miles an hour.

2006 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 26 Oct. f1 You had to use street tires, not racing tires.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Oct. 1/3 A Clincher racing-tyred Humber safety.

1864 Reader No. 97. 568/2 A racing-whip he had brought.

1909 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 15 Feb. 2/5 The Sporting Chronicle has much pleasure in offering a silver-mounted racing whip to the jockey who scores the greatest number of wins during this year.

2005 Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana) (Nexis) 7 Dec. 10 Toups..wears a boyish smile and spins a worn racing whip between his fingers as he talks.

a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 657 By dint of application acquiring some knowledge in the mysteries of the turf, I began to be of consequence in the racing world.

1905 Times 9 Jan. 10/3 The news that Mr. Croker had been refused permission to have his horses trained at Newmarket came as a complete surprise to the racing world in America.

2005 EnRoute (Air Canada) Apr. 22/2 The racing world is a whiskied one, for years the domain of the venerable Mint Julep.

1835 Bell's Life in London 19 July The racing yachts will start from a vessel moored between Drake’s Island and the Main, whence they will pass out of the Sound through the Eastern passage.

1850 Times 15 July 8/5 She is one of the fine old racing yachts, and is last from Portsmouth.

1974 Times 10 Jan. 12/6 The West German round-the-world racing yacht, Peter von Danzig, is putting into Bluff, on New Zealand's South Island.

2004 EnRoute (Air Canada) Jan. 75/2 You can refuel in the inn's wood-panelled pub, which looks like the cabin of a J-class racing yacht circa 1910.

1879 Carlisle Express & Examiner 30 Aug. 6/6 He was governor of Carlisle... It is probably his wife who is commemorated on the silver-gilt racing bell in possession of the Corporation of Carlisle.

1914 Times 27 Mar. 13/1 Great excitement was aroused by the contests for the racing bells, which were held for a year by the victor.

2003 Times (Nexis) 7 Apr. 27 Each year Carlisle Racecourse holds a race for the Bell, carrying on a tradition dating back to at least the 16th century when racing bells were commonly given as prizes.

1709 (title) The Racing Calendar.

1842 T. De Quincey Pope in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 398/2 He would suppose himself reading the Racing Calendar.

1901 Times 25 Dec. 9/3 The Racing Calendar announces that Mr. E. Mansfield Weatherby has been appointed keeper of the Match Book and secretary to the Jockey Club.

1965 D. Francis For Kicks vi. 80 Check with the racing calendar to see if any has been entered.

1989 I. Morrison Motor Racing 68 Many of the hazards were approached blind because of the acute undulations, thus making it one of the most severe circuits on the racing calendar.

1991 Running Apr. 60/1 When drawing up your hectic April racing calendar give the Bournemouth Bay Run your strongest consideration.

1842 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland II. 334 Under tents erected for the purpose, were displayed gentlemen's cars, racing-cars, family and shooting cars.

1849 A. Rich Compan. Lat. Dict. & Greek Lexicon 70/1 The driver of a racing car in the Circus at the Circensian games.

1901 Times 29 June 15/5 The racing cars [in the Paris–Berlin motor race]..are expected to reach the goal in the Trotting Racecourse at Westend to-morrow morning.

1977 M. Kenyon Rapist iv. 44 He said he..had been an important racing car driver.

2003 Ice Oct. 117/1 It's impossible to say whether the racing cars handle realistically.

1859 Era 2 Oct. 3/4 All other ‘certainties’ we have a thorough distrust of, more especially of racing ‘certainties’.

1919 Times 31 Dec. 5 He won the Two Thousand Guineas and was considered by many to be a racing certainty for the most memorable Derby in the whole history of the race.

1968 Times 5 Sept. 23 It is a ‘racing’ certainty that Sir Peter Runge..will be the next chairman of the British National Export Council.

2002 R. Cassidy Sports of Kings 166 Despite the sport's long history of record keeping and changes in technology, there is no such thing as a racing ‘certainty’.

1959 I. Fleming Goldfinger vii. 86 James Bond flung the DB III through the last mile of straight and did a racing change down into third.

1967 Times 4 May 4/4 (advt.) Automatic gearbox..means that gear-changes are invariably quicker than the fastest racing change.

1996 V. Walsh Rationality, Allocation & Reprod. iii. 76 In the course of the construction of a formal model using good in this way, good has to do some fast racing changes.

1877 Times 18 Aug. 10/5 There were seven entries of cutters for this match, only one failing to show her racing colours.

1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions i. v. 196 She handed a folded twenty~dollar bill to a boy wearing her racing colors.

2007 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 6 Jan. 6 It will be the home of the reformed Birmingham Brummies [speedway] team, who are set to ride in the famous red and yellow racing colours.

1938 Times 24 Feb. 13/5 Still playing bridge with the dog-eared pack that the children used for Racing Demon at Christmas.

1977 Times 24 Dec. 10/2 Try racing demon for the party card game if you have a large table and fast-playing, shouting screaming players.

2000 T. Hadley in J. Thomas Catwomen from Hell 3 She chose him to explain to her the rules of Racing Demon, he had to play through the first couple of hands with her.

1901 Washington Post 8 Jan. 10/3 (heading) Origin of racing dope.

1964 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 28 Aug. 12/2 Because of his ability to converse with race horses, a young boy gets all kinds of racing dope.

1993 Phoenix New Times (Nexis) 29 Sept. 35 Most observers agree that such stagnation—a product of its traditional monopoly on all the straight racing dope—caused considerable journalistic malaise.

1855 Times 17 Aug. 10/5 On coming abreast of Old Castle point she hauled down her racing flag, denoting that she gave up the contest.

1926 Times 6 Apr. 5/5 Wyvern was disqualified for not carrying a racing flag.

1986 Harbour News (Chichester Harbour Conservancy) 9 Such nuisances..as..dinghies flying racing flags when not actually racing.

1895 (title of periodical) Racing form.

1910 S. P. Wilson Chicago by Gas Light 43 It is no uncommon sight to see the place crowded with men and women waiting for the ‘racing form’ to appear hot from the printing press.

1997 A. Wood EastEnders (BBC TV script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 562. 28 (stage direct.) Terry's sitting at a table, looking at the racing form, a pen in his hand as he studies it.

1857 O. W. Le Vert Souvenirs of Trav. I. vi. 50 There was music and cards, and the favorite English racing game.

1890 C. M. Yonge More Bywords 154 The ‘racing game’,..which was now spread on the dining~table, with all the young people playing in high glee.

1891 N.Y. Times 25 July The same man runs the racing game at Monmouth Park and Morris Park, and our dollars are going to pay for..a few breeding farms here and in England.

1965 F. Hardy Yarns of Billy Borker 70 (title) The greatest slanter in the history of the racing game.

1996 Beaver (Nexis) Sept. 18 Confidence men were a common element at the race track. Superstitions were another element of the Victorian racing game.

1854 Times 10 May 9/4 The black leather case of the racing glass, which hung by a strap over the shoulder of their unwelcome visitor.

1882 Graphic 25 Oct. 437/3 Putting off the shibboleth of the turf with his racing-glasses.

1940 L. Bromfield Night in Bombay 164 The Baroness and Mr. Botlivala..looked like a pair of beetles equipped with racing glasses.

1965 Times 17 Nov. 1/4 Barr & Stroud, 7 × 50s, in case, ideal racing glass, £25.

2005 Herald (Rock Hill, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 15 Sept. 1 b The Mitchells..also have his racing glasses, which he hand-painted yellow and green to match his bike suit.

1923 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 28 May 3/3 Ernest Hull putting a coat of racing green on his six foot ‘punt racer’.

1932 Times 23 Aug. 4 (advt.) British racing green throughout.

1999 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 28 May 5 Women's favourite car colour is racing green.

2004 G. Davison & S. Yelland Car Wars 57 The young enthusiast..added a bright new coat of British racing green.

1877 Times 3 Oct. 4/3 Few heroines can boast of as tragic a fate as that of Racket, the famous racing pigeon.

1933 Discovery Nov. 344/1 Racing and homing pigeons are often captured.

2002 Racing Pigeon Pict. Internat. Aug. 3/1 Bob's grandfather was from Belgium and knew racing pigeons.

1795 J. Weatherby Racing Cal. for 1794 XXII. 175 Tuesday the 5th, 50l. for real hunters, that never won a Racing Plate.

1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §1238 Racing plates for the feet [of horses] are of two kinds—the full and the three-quarter.

1867 P. A. Rasmussen in Rep. Artisans Visit Paris Universal Exhib. ii. 309 A large collection of racing-plate, sent by the owners.

1919 Times 1 Feb. 13/1 All sorts of cunning devices, such as sending animals to the post burdened with heavy shoes instead of racing plates.

2006 Racing Post (Nexis) 2 Nov. 12 One of the racing plates worn by Best Mate in the 2004 Gold Cup failed to reach its reserve.

1899 St. Paul (Minnesota) Globe 9 July 9/4 A Round-up Sale of Choicest Neckwear... Jappiest ornamentation, Racing stripes, Fleur-de-Lis, Brilliant big plaids in the dashingest effects that are now in the swim of fashion.

1925 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 12 (advt.) Scarfs and Ties..in Spring sporting colors, regimental and racing stripes.

1960 Long Beach (Calif.) Press Telegram 25 Mar. An electric three-wheeler with a racing stripe down the middle.

1984 Observer Mag. 20 May 56 T-shirts are given a racy cut and skirt and trousers a racing stripe.

2005 SL (Cape Town) Feb. 80/1 [They] think that cup-holders and a racing stripe can turn a humble Citi Golf into a Sonic.

1796 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses I. 188 I am all for broom or racing tails, such as are ‘cut square by the Russian standard’.

1851 ‘Rugbæan’ Transatlantic Rambles xviii. 147 I..docked him [sc. a pony], giving him a racing tail, which much improved his appearance.

1843 W. M. Thackeray Jérôme Paturot 361 A great floundering racing-tailed horse.

1833 New Sporting Mag. 5 132 The racing-like style in which he did his work.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour x. liii. 304 Sound, springy, racing-like turf.

1877 Spirit of Times 15 Dec. 524/1 I saw the two-year-old; he is a racing-like looking fellow, and his owner says that 2:50 won't be a clip for him next spring.

1936 Times 4 Sept. 4/2 She is a racing-like filly.

2002 Edmonton (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 14 June dr32 Its space-frame chassis with aluminum honeycomb everywhere saves weight, adds structural strength for a racing-like feel.

1636 W. Denny in Ann. Dubrensia sig. C^v Then by and by, swift racing Naggs contend Who first, shall message conquest to the end, Of their appointed course.

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiii. 342 The Prizes..decreed To the brave Rulers of the racing Steed.

1726 E. F. Haywood Refl. on Love (ed. 2) 22 Each Morning early as the Sun I rose, For racing Thoughts chac'd away soft Repose.

1811 W. R. Spencer Poems 23 How swift from left and right, The racing fields and hills recede.

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. xiii. 250 Levelling his telescope to sight the racing cutters.

a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 67 That blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.

1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 121 Runs to a fret of speed like a racing wheel.

1931 V. Woolf Waves 281 I exclaimed derisively and looked at the racing clouds, and felt my own failure.

1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 286 The policeman had already turned back to the cars, the racing engines, the honking and blatting.

1973 F. Charles in J. Berry Bluefoot Traveller (1977) 45 His racing mind could not contain The multiplying creatures trying to explain His lost life.

1988 W. Horwood Duncton Quest ii. xiii. 194 It was..very different from southern systems, having greater rainfall, racing rivers and streams all about.