sheathingn.

Brit.

/ˈʃiːðɪŋ/,

/ˈʃiːθɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈʃiðɪŋ/

Forms: Also Middle English schedynge, 1600s shething.

Etymology: < sheathe v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of putting into a sheath.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > encasing or sheathing

sheathing1499

trunking1963

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > [noun] > sheathing of sword

sheathing1499

1499 Promptorium Parvulorum 444/2 (Pynson) Schedynge, vaginatio.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 121 Walters dagger was not come from sheathing .

b. The action of putting on a protective layer to a ship's bottom; also, †the method or manner in which this is done.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > sheathing

sheathing1623

iron-casing1863

copperingc1865

1623 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 310 Dockes for the sheathinge or carreeninge of theire shipps.

a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 346/2 Another Sheathing is with double Planks.

1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 153 Mr. John Sish took no ordinary Care in Strengthening her, and in her Shething, which was as well performed as in any Ship that ever sailed on the Sea.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vii. 367 Having by that time compleated the new sheathing of the first course..they continued..the paying and sheathing the bottom.

1849 H. W. Longfellow Building of Ship in Seaside & Fireside 18 The..seething Caldron, that..overflowed With the black tar, heated for the sheathing.

a. A protective layer or covering laid on the outside of the bottom of a wooden ship, to protect the planks from the borings of marine animals. Formerly of boards, etc., later usually of thin plates of metal (copper). Also a wooden covering sometimes used to protect the submerged parts of iron ships from corrosion by the water.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > sheathing

sheathing1587

copper1836

1587 in J. S. Corbett Pap. rel. Spanish War (1898) 226 Decayed timbers..under the sheathing [MS. Shething].

1633 T. James Strange Voy. 32 We saw some of the sheathing swim by vs.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xx She had her sheathing strip'd at seven Years end to repair the Plank, but not for any defect in the Sheathing it self.

1728 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Rec. App. ii. 155 A new method for preserving the plank and sheathing of Ships.

1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. vi. v. 289 The carpenters..proceeded to rip off the sheathing that had been injured by the ice, from the starboard side.

1850 G. Cupples Green Hand v. 53/1 A fathom or two from the bright copper of her sheathing along the water-line.

1886 Sir N. Barnaby in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 819/1 The plank, or skin, or sheathing of a ship, both external and internal, is of various thicknesses.

b. gen. A covering or envelope in which something is encased for protection or ornament; material prepared for use as an envelope or casing. Chiefly in technical applications: e.g. a covering of boards, plates of metal, or other material, fitted to the surface of a wall, roof, or other part of a building, a piece of machinery, or the like.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for other specific purposes

screen cloth1603

wadding1627

heading1650

fusive1678

graving stuff1702

pounce1728

railing1740

retarder1753

seating1790

shelving1817

bending1823

shafting1825

wedging1825

rubber sheet1842

facing1843

piston packing1857

sheathing1859

screeding1864

paint1875

sleeving1923

landfill1969

presoak1969

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > other types of paper

India paper1721

whitey-brown1761

hot press1807

splash-paper1811

India proof1812

India paper proof1814

crinkled paper1820

pattern paper1849

powder paper1856

sheathing1859

chartaline1880

lining paper1880

Whatman1880

greaseproof paper1894

papyroxylin1894

shelf paper1895

corrugated paper1897

construction paper1902

Ingres paper1910

liner1921

cartolina1936

wood-free1966

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > encasing or sheathing > that which

hosea1450

enclosure1551

clausure1564

casement1594

hull1718

encasement1741

sheath1774

casing1839

casework1842

cleading1849

sheathing1859

1859 Habits Good Society iii. 132 A loose covering is both more comfortable and more healthy than a tight sheathing of cloth [i.e. tight trousers].

1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 116 Upon the upper one the plates or segments of tubbing are built up, sheathing of pitch pine, ³/ ₈ or ¹/ ₂ inch thick, being inserted between all the contact surfaces, and the vertical joints broken, as in stone work.

1868 Art Jrnl. 1 Feb. 35/2 Mural sheathings imitative of the finest Persian patterns.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 174 Sheathing, a close partition or covering of planks.

1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 687/2 The sea-cow..is..skinned—for the back sheathing is thick and hard in texture, rendering it useful for many purposes.

c. Sheathing paper.

ΚΠ

1859 Stationers' Hand-bk. 81 Sheathing, a large thick brown paper, used for ships' bottoms, usually made to order.

3. A banking of loose stones to prevent overflowing of a river. Cf. sheath n.¹ 6; also camp-sheathing, variant of campshedding n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun]

wharf1038

causeyc1330

wall1330

bulwark1555

scut1561

weir1599

mound1613

staithe1613

breastwork1641

embankment1786

bund1813

sheath1850

fleet-dyke1858

sheathing1867

causeway1878

flood-bank1928

stopbank1950

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling viii. 246 Working his bait..behind piles and under the apron or sheathing [of the weir].

Compounds

C1. General attributive (sense 2a, 2b).

sheathing board n.

ΚΠ

1628 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 251 Planck, sheathinge boards, laths.

1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. v. 546 We saw by the light of the moon the sheathing boards from the bottom of the vessel floating away all round her.

sheathing copper n.

ΚΠ

1800 Hull Advertiser 20 Sept. 2/1 Small cordage, sheathing paper, sheathing copper, and ships stores.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxii. 124 Sheets of sheathing-copper.

sheathing felt n.

ΚΠ

1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 763/1 Sheathing felt is applied in coppered ships immediately below the copper.

sheathing lead n.

ΚΠ

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 83 The Goodness of Sheathing-Lead to line the Bread-rooms.

sheathing paper n.

ΚΠ

1794 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 214 Writing and printing paper, sheathing and wrapping paper.

1861 J. Spence Amer. v. 182 Paper is under a prohibitory duty of 30 per cent., but sheathing paper pays only 10 per cent.

C2.

sheathing-nail n. (see quot. 1850).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > nails for other specific uses

stay-nail1296

wough-nailc1300

strake-nail1334

wall-nail1344

traverse nail1348

doornail1350

gad-nail1375

lath-nail1388

clout-nail1463

lattice-nail1480

lath-brod1536

sheathing-nail1611

bellows-nail1731

weight nail1850

panel pin1867

wheeler1873

fencing-nail1874

brattice-nail1880

toggle1934

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Clou d'estoupe, a speake, or sheathing nayle; vsed in ships.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 134 Sheathing nails are used to fasten wood sheathing on the ship's bottom, to preserve the plank and prevent the filling nails from tearing it too much. Sheathing nails, for nailing copper sheathing, are of metal cast in moulds, about 1¼ inch long.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sheathingadj.

/ˈʃiːθɪŋ/

Etymology: < sheathe v. + -ing suffix².

a. That sheathes.

ΚΠ

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 96 And transient in a trice From what was left of faded woman-slough To sheathing splendours and the golden scale Of harness.

1908 Smithsonian Misc. Coll. LII. 16 A sheathing projection on occiput, and one above opercle.

b. Botany.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > sheathing

socket?1711

vaginant1760

sheathing1778

vaginal1792

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > encasing or sheathing

sheathing1778

ensheathing1877

1778 Encycl. Brit. II. 1297/1 Vaginans, [of a leaf] sheathing, or with its base forming a cylindrical tube investing the stem.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 25 This long purplish substance which stands upright within the sheathing conical Calyx.

1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 209 The sheathing bases of the leaves.

1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) i. 40 The attachment of the leaves of parallel-veined plants is often what is called sheathing, as we see in the grasses,..in which the leaf springs from a sheath..which embraces the stem.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 141 Membranous sheathing layers of a granular substance.

c. Anatomy. (See quot. 1889.)

ΚΠ

1889 Cent. Dict. at Canal Sheathing canal (canalis vaginalis), the communication of the cavity of the tunica vaginalis testis with the general peritoneal cavity of the abdomen.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	sheathing
释义	sheathingn. Brit. /ˈʃiːðɪŋ/, /ˈʃiːθɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈʃiðɪŋ/ Forms: Also Middle English schedynge, 1600s shething. Etymology: < sheathe v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of putting into a sheath. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > encasing or sheathing sheathing1499 trunking1963 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > [noun] > sheathing of sword sheathing1499 1499 Promptorium Parvulorum 444/2 (Pynson) Schedynge, vaginatio. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 121 Walters dagger was not come from sheathing . View more context for this quotation b. The action of putting on a protective layer to a ship's bottom; also, †the method or manner in which this is done. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > sheathing sheathing1623 iron-casing1863 copperingc1865 1623 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 310 Dockes for the sheathinge or carreeninge of theire shipps. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 346/2 Another Sheathing is with double Planks. 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 153 Mr. John Sish took no ordinary Care in Strengthening her, and in her Shething, which was as well performed as in any Ship that ever sailed on the Sea. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vii. 367 Having by that time compleated the new sheathing of the first course..they continued..the paying and sheathing the bottom. 1849 H. W. Longfellow Building of Ship in Seaside & Fireside 18 The..seething Caldron, that..overflowed With the black tar, heated for the sheathing. 2. a. A protective layer or covering laid on the outside of the bottom of a wooden ship, to protect the planks from the borings of marine animals. Formerly of boards, etc., later usually of thin plates of metal (copper). Also a wooden covering sometimes used to protect the submerged parts of iron ships from corrosion by the water. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > sheathing sheathing1587 copper1836 1587 in J. S. Corbett Pap. rel. Spanish War (1898) 226 Decayed timbers..under the sheathing [MS. Shething]. 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 32 We saw some of the sheathing swim by vs. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xx She had her sheathing strip'd at seven Years end to repair the Plank, but not for any defect in the Sheathing it self. 1728 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Rec. App. ii. 155 A new method for preserving the plank and sheathing of Ships. 1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. vi. v. 289 The carpenters..proceeded to rip off the sheathing that had been injured by the ice, from the starboard side. 1850 G. Cupples Green Hand v. 53/1 A fathom or two from the bright copper of her sheathing along the water-line. 1886 Sir N. Barnaby in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 819/1 The plank, or skin, or sheathing of a ship, both external and internal, is of various thicknesses. b. gen. A covering or envelope in which something is encased for protection or ornament; material prepared for use as an envelope or casing. Chiefly in technical applications: e.g. a covering of boards, plates of metal, or other material, fitted to the surface of a wall, roof, or other part of a building, a piece of machinery, or the like. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for other specific purposes screen cloth1603 wadding1627 heading1650 fusive1678 graving stuff1702 pounce1728 railing1740 retarder1753 seating1790 shelving1817 bending1823 shafting1825 wedging1825 rubber sheet1842 facing1843 piston packing1857 sheathing1859 screeding1864 paint1875 sleeving1923 landfill1969 presoak1969 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > other types of paper India paper1721 whitey-brown1761 hot press1807 splash-paper1811 India proof1812 India paper proof1814 crinkled paper1820 pattern paper1849 powder paper1856 sheathing1859 chartaline1880 lining paper1880 Whatman1880 greaseproof paper1894 papyroxylin1894 shelf paper1895 corrugated paper1897 construction paper1902 Ingres paper1910 liner1921 cartolina1936 wood-free1966 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > encasing or sheathing > that which hosea1450 enclosure1551 clausure1564 casement1594 hull1718 encasement1741 sheath1774 casing1839 casework1842 cleading1849 sheathing1859 1859 Habits Good Society iii. 132 A loose covering is both more comfortable and more healthy than a tight sheathing of cloth [i.e. tight trousers]. 1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 116 Upon the upper one the plates or segments of tubbing are built up, sheathing of pitch pine, ³/ ₈ or ¹/ ₂ inch thick, being inserted between all the contact surfaces, and the vertical joints broken, as in stone work. 1868 Art Jrnl. 1 Feb. 35/2 Mural sheathings imitative of the finest Persian patterns. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 174 Sheathing, a close partition or covering of planks. 1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 687/2 The sea-cow..is..skinned—for the back sheathing is thick and hard in texture, rendering it useful for many purposes. c. Sheathing paper. ΚΠ 1859 Stationers' Hand-bk. 81 Sheathing, a large thick brown paper, used for ships' bottoms, usually made to order. 3. A banking of loose stones to prevent overflowing of a river. Cf. sheath n.¹ 6; also camp-sheathing, variant of campshedding n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun] wharf1038 causeyc1330 wall1330 bulwark1555 scut1561 weir1599 mound1613 staithe1613 breastwork1641 embankment1786 bund1813 sheath1850 fleet-dyke1858 sheathing1867 causeway1878 flood-bank1928 stopbank1950 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling viii. 246 Working his bait..behind piles and under the apron or sheathing [of the weir]. Compounds C1. General attributive (sense 2a, 2b). sheathing board n. ΚΠ 1628 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 251 Planck, sheathinge boards, laths. 1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. v. 546 We saw by the light of the moon the sheathing boards from the bottom of the vessel floating away all round her. sheathing copper n. ΚΠ 1800 Hull Advertiser 20 Sept. 2/1 Small cordage, sheathing paper, sheathing copper, and ships stores. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxii. 124 Sheets of sheathing-copper. sheathing felt n. ΚΠ 1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 763/1 Sheathing felt is applied in coppered ships immediately below the copper. sheathing lead n. ΚΠ 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 83 The Goodness of Sheathing-Lead to line the Bread-rooms. sheathing paper n. ΚΠ 1794 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 214 Writing and printing paper, sheathing and wrapping paper. 1861 J. Spence Amer. v. 182 Paper is under a prohibitory duty of 30 per cent., but sheathing paper pays only 10 per cent. C2. sheathing-nail n. (see quot. 1850). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > nails for other specific uses stay-nail1296 wough-nailc1300 strake-nail1334 wall-nail1344 traverse nail1348 doornail1350 gad-nail1375 lath-nail1388 clout-nail1463 lattice-nail1480 lath-brod1536 sheathing-nail1611 bellows-nail1731 weight nail1850 panel pin1867 wheeler1873 fencing-nail1874 brattice-nail1880 toggle1934 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Clou d'estoupe, a speake, or sheathing nayle; vsed in ships. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 134 Sheathing nails are used to fasten wood sheathing on the ship's bottom, to preserve the plank and prevent the filling nails from tearing it too much. Sheathing nails, for nailing copper sheathing, are of metal cast in moulds, about 1¼ inch long. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sheathingadj. /ˈʃiːθɪŋ/ Etymology: < sheathe v. + -ing suffix². a. That sheathes. ΚΠ 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 96 And transient in a trice From what was left of faded woman-slough To sheathing splendours and the golden scale Of harness. 1908 Smithsonian Misc. Coll. LII. 16 A sheathing projection on occiput, and one above opercle. b. Botany. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > sheathing socket?1711 vaginant1760 sheathing1778 vaginal1792 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > encasing or sheathing sheathing1778 ensheathing1877 1778 Encycl. Brit. II. 1297/1 Vaginans, [of a leaf] sheathing, or with its base forming a cylindrical tube investing the stem. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 25 This long purplish substance which stands upright within the sheathing conical Calyx. 1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 209 The sheathing bases of the leaves. 1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) i. 40 The attachment of the leaves of parallel-veined plants is often what is called sheathing, as we see in the grasses,..in which the leaf springs from a sheath..which embraces the stem. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 141 Membranous sheathing layers of a granular substance. c. Anatomy. (See quot. 1889.) ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. at Canal Sheathing canal (canalis vaginalis), the communication of the cavity of the tunica vaginalis testis with the general peritoneal cavity of the abdomen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1499adj.1778
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