steeningn.
/ˈstiːnɪŋ/ 1. concrete. The lining of a well or other excavation.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone lining of well or excavation
steening1767
the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > well > shaft > lining of
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boxing1907
1767 Ann. Reg., Chron. 56/1 The steining [of the well] fel in upon him and inclosed him at the bottom.
1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 13 A brick steening, of two bricks thick in tarris, [was] raised gradually towards the top of the well.
1898 F. Davis Romano-Brit. City of Silchester 40 They [the wells] were mostly lined with a flint steining as far as the water.
1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) x. 57 The well was old, and broad, with a good stone steyning, and a strong coping round the top.
1939 Oxoniensia 4 94 They might have been stones used to edge or pave the mouth of the well, as similar fragments of stone occurred in most wells, but they could not be taken as steyning.
2. dialect.
a. A paved ford across a river.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed > fordable place > ford > types of
plungeonc1685
steening1838
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Steaning.
1887 S. H. A. Hervey in Wedmore Chron. I. 288 (E.D.D.) Here I suppose was once a stream; and they crossed it by a stenning.
b. (See quot. 1888.)
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1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Steening,..2. The metal fresh laid on a road.
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