单词 | vealing |
释义 | vealingn.1 1. a-vealing: procuring veal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > seeking or acquiring food > specific meat a-vealing1664 1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 47 And up he starts, to go a stealing, Either a Mutt'ning, or a Vealing. 2. Conversion into veal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] slaughtera1300 to make larder ofa1330 murdering?a1475 fall1575 butchering1609 ovicide1828 felicide1832 poultrycide1841 piscicide1847 vealing1847 kill1850 slaughterage1854 birdicide1862 apricide1864 insecticide1865 vulpicidism1865 vulpicide1873 serpenticide1882 tauricide1882 vaccicide1887 leporicide1914 culling1938 cull1958 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > rearing of calves suckling1799 vealing1847 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 394 It is equally suitable, whether the calf is intended for vealing or to be reared. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). † vealingn.2 Obsolete. (See quot. 1688.) ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 86/2 Working, is to lay them on the Beam and with the Fleshing Knife and Vealing Knife, to scrape off the Lime and cleanse them from their Fleshyness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). vealingn.3 Scottish. Mining. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > removal of water unwatering1778 vealing1886 1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 69 Vealing, or vouning, chesting; getting out water by means of veals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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