stringingn.
/ˈstrɪŋɪŋ/ 1. The action of string v.:
a. in transitive senses.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > [noun] > strings
stringing1620
violin-making1875
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > action of providing racket with strings
stringing1884
the mind > language > speech > [noun]
speechc725
spellc888
tonguec897
spellingc1000
wordOE
mathelingOE
redec1275
sermonc1275
leeda1300
gale13..
speakc1300
speaking1303
ledenc1320
talea1325
parliamentc1325
winda1330
sermoningc1330
saying1340
melinga1375
talkingc1386
wordc1390
prolationa1393
carpinga1400
eloquencec1400
utteringc1400
language?c1450
reporturec1475
parleyc1490
locutionc1500
talk1539
discourse1545
report1548
tonguec1550
deliverance1553
oration1555
delivery1577
parling1582
parle1584
conveying1586
passage1598
perlocution1599
wording1604
bursta1616
ventilation1615
loquency1623
voicinga1626
verbocination1653
loquence1677
pronunciation1686
loquel1694
jawinga1731
talkee-talkee?1740
vocification1743
talkation1781
voicing1822
utterancy1827
voicing1831
the spoken word1832
outness1851
verbalization1851
voice1855
outgiving1865
stringing1886
praxis1950
society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [noun] > other processes
headbanding1707
lacing1818
steamboating1826
casework1835
stringing1914
tipping1931
backing-
1620 F. Bacon Let. 30 Aug. in Lett. & Rem. (1734) 112 The stringing of the harp, nor the tuning of it will not serve, except it be well plaied on from time to time.
1655 in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 5 The polyphon is an instrument of so different a stringing and tuning that its impossible to play what is sett to it on any other hand instrument.
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3391 A new mode of stringing, adapted to instruments of all kinds.
1884 Tennis Cuts 69 All these results have been caused by the change in the stringing of rackets [etc.].
1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. ix. 82 The stringing together of words and ideas in triplets.
1914 S. Gibson Some Oxf. Libr. vi. 78 The stringing and restringing of books..provided the Bodleian binders with much work.
b. in intransitive senses.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > in disconnected line
stringing1873
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > type of firing
point and blank1590
false fire1602
potting1613
point-blank1614
running fire1629
pounding1633
bulleting1635
platooning1706
sharp-shot1725
street firing1727
ricochet1740
fire curtain1744
plunging fire1747
reverse fire1758
sniping1773
enfilade1796
rapid fire1800
line-firing1802
concentric1804
sharpshooting1806
rake1810
sniping fire1821
cross-firing1837
file-firing1837
curved fire1854
night firing1856
file-fire1857
volley-firing1859
cross-fire1860
joy-firing1864
snap-shooting1872
stringing1873
pot-shooting1874
indirect fire1879
sweeping1907
rapid1913
curtain of fire1916
ripple1939
ripple-firing1940
ripple fire1961
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play
raking1674
coup1744
Whitechapel play1755
bricole1775
trailing1775
star1839
cannoning1841
safety1844
spotting1849
billiard-sharping1865
stringing1873
safety play1896
potting1909
society > communication > journalism > [noun] > local or part-time
stringing1952
1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 477 The choice of balls and order of play shall..be determined by stringing.
1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 194 [The] party sail on..no tailing or stringing to-day, but the whole one compact and hurrying mass.
1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 267 The great stringing of the charge is due to the heavy charge of explosive used. The average stringing in a properly loaded gun is about ten feet at forty yards.
1952 Iowa Quest 31 Jan. 3/5 ‘Stringing’ is interesting and has provided many aspiring journalists with valuable on-the-job training.
1970 A. Fowles Dupe Negative iii. 23 I'd shot an interview with him..on a stringing job for the BBC.
1973 Times 3 July 18/7 Lyall then did more years in the editor's chair..before devoting himself to stringing.
c. figurative. stringing up: a severe reprimand or admonition. slang.
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1925 F. Lonsdale Spring Cleaning iii So, that stringing up he gave me to-night hasn't affected you in the least?
2. concrete.
a. Strings collectively; †ornamentation of lace or fringe. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun]
guardinga1538
basting1592
trimming1625
stringing1722
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > strings
stringing1853
1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets ii. 14 And where gat ye that braw blue Stringing, That's at your Houghs and Shouders hinging?
1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 410/2 The stringing [in a pianoforte]..was formerly much thinner than at present.
b. Material for the string-board of a staircase, or for string-courses on a building.
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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material > for other parts
skiftingc1450
guttering1703
lintelling1703
skirting1825
stringing1833
spouting1838
trussing1840
undercloak1896
shuttering1898
screed1937
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §239. 125 Moulded nosings to the steps to be housed (let in) into the close stringing, which is to be one and a quarter inch thick, sunk.
1858 W. H. Skyring Builders' Prices 91 In all copings, stringings, pilasters, cornices, and other solid works, find the cube quantity of stone as it comes from the banker to the building.
c. Straight or curved inlaid lines in cabinet-work.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [noun] > types of inlaid work
marquetry1563
tarsia1665
Tunbridge ware1773
stringing1812
parquetry1816
Reisner1833
parquetage1845
intarsiatura1863
tarkashi1878
parquet work1880
intarsia1894
Shibayama1928
seaweed-marquetry1935
1812 MS. Letter I have purchased some veneer, but cannot get any stringing.
1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts
1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 86 Holly..is used..for the stringings or lines of cabinet-work.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 737 The stringings, or the straight and circular lines combined with pearl buhl work, are mostly of white metal.
3. Silk-dyeing. The operation of twisting the hanks of silk after dyeing, in order to separate the fibres and impart lustre.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > manufacture of silk thread or yarn > spec processes involved in
stringing1885
1885 J. J. Hummel Dyeing Textile Fabrics 55 Stringing or Glossing (Fr. chevillage).
Compounds
stringing course n. a string-course.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > string-course or -moulding
curstable1278
tablec1400
ledgement1435
wreath1677
cordon1706
tablette1723
belt1730
string1809
string-course1825
belt course1830
tablet1830
string-moulding1833
rope border1855
stringing course1861
racecourse1883
1861 G. M. Musgrave By-roads in Picardy 179 Handsome farmhouses, built up in red brick with stone facings, labellings, and stringing courses.
stringing-deal n. (see quot. 1881).
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine
work1474
firework1606
stemple1653
stool1653
bink1675
engine pit1687
swamp1691
feeder1702
wall1728
bag1742
sill1747
stope1747
rose cistern1778
striking-house1824
plat1828
stemplar1828
screen chamber1829
offtake1835
footwall1837
triple pit1839
stamp1849
paddock1852
working floor1858
pit house1866
ground-sluice1869
screen tower1871
planilla1877
undercurrent1877
mill1878
blanket-sluice1881
stringing-deal1881
wagon-breast1881
brushing-bed1883
poppet-leg1890
slippet1898
stable1906
overcut1940
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 183 Stringing-deals, Eng. Thin planks, nailed to the inside of the curbs in a shaft, so as to suspend each curb from those above it.
stringing-machine n. (see sense 3). †In Billiards:
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1885 J. J. Hummel Dyeing Textile Fabrics 55 The stringing machine.
stringing-line n. the baulk-line.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table > lines
baulk-line1839
string1857
stringing-line1873
string-line1897
anchor baulkline1910
1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 6 The players led from the centre of the stringing-line or baulk, which occupied a quarter of the table, instead of about a fifth as at present.
stringing nail n. each of two nails formerly used as ‘spots’ on the baulk-line.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table > nails or marks
stringing nail1788
stringing spot1839
sight1864
1788 J. Beaufort Hoyle's Games Impr. 195 Stringing-nail is that part of the table from whence the player strikes his ball at first setting off, and is generally marked with two brass nails.
1808 C. Jones Hoyle's Games Impr. 338 A red ball is to be placed..between the stringing nails or spots.
stringing spot n. each of two ‘spots’ on the baulk-line.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table > nails or marks
stringing nail1788
stringing spot1839
sight1864
1839 E. Kentfield Game of Billiards 29 The player, in stringing for the lead,..must not place his ball beyond the stringing spots.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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