sunbakingn.
/ˈsʌnbeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsənˌbeɪkɪŋ/, Australian English /ˈsʌnbæekɪŋ/, New Zealand English /ˈsʌnbæekɪŋ/ 1. The process of being dried up, parched, or hardened by the heat of the sun.
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1793 Laws & Regulations Massachusetts Soc. for Promoting Agric. 51 The greatest injury that can befal hemp, is that of sun baking.
1858 J. L. Morton Resources of Estates iii. 71 The wetter the soil has been before, the deeper do these rents go, and the more hurtful does the sun-baking become.
1933 Country Life 12 Aug. p. xxviii/2 A thorough sun-baking of their rhizomes.
1966 Irish Times 21 Oct. 10/5 It can be quite easily grown by us in Ireland,..with as much sun-baking as our temperamental climate will allow.
2014 J. A. Soule Southwest Fruit & Veg. Gardening vi. 94 Apply a thick layer of cedar bark mulch to..protect roots of these trees from sunbaking.
2. Australian and New Zealand. Sunbathing. Cf. sunbake v.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > to heat of sun > sun-bathing
aprication1623
sunbathing1814
sunbath1816
sunbaking1910
1910 Truth (Sydney) 14 Aug. 5/3 Sun-baking, after a dip in the surf, was claimed to be especially invigorating.
1913 Sydney Morning Herald 24 Jan. 7/8 Alderman Ogilvy moved that a portion of the beach be set apart for sun-baking.
1927 ‘S. Rudd’ Romance of Runnibede 130 There was a lot of hard work and hard knocks, and sun-baking attached to it.
1936 E. Dark Return to Coolami xxiv. 262 He had wondered..if Susan liked surfing, if she liked sunbaking.
1977 Best of Austral. Angler 63/1 The middle of the day is mostly for sunbaking and dreaming.
2016 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Aug. 20 The women were..donning their bikinis for some sunbaking before heading off to lunch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sunbakingadj.
/ˈsʌnbeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsənˌbeɪkɪŋ/, Australian English /ˈsʌnbæekɪŋ/, New Zealand English /ˈsʌnbæekɪŋ/ Australian and New Zealand.
That lies or basks in the sun; that sunbathes. Cf. sunbake v.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > in the sun > to sun in order to acquire tan
sunbaking1910
suntanning1981
1910 Truth (Sydney) 9 Oct. 2/8 If those sun baking barrackers really desire to get sun baked in ‘the altogether’, why do they not repair to Tamarama Bay.
1988 Herald (Adelaide, Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Jan. Everybody seems to be ridiculously laidback, from players to officials to sunbaking spectators.
2007 Hobart Mercury (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Jan. 9 As they boarded, a sunbaking seal peered around from its perched position on the duckboard.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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