单词 | waling |
释义 | walingn.1 The action or process of choosing or selecting (also with out). ΚΠ 1634 S. Rutherford Let. 29 Apr. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 469 It should be of your wailing & not of his. 1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. i. v. 12 Every seed encreaseth by the earth and moisture thereof, which cannot be but with a wehling out, or choice of things that are homogeneous, or of parts like thereto. Compounds waling glass n. (see quot. 1880.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > magnifying glass > types of reading glass1668 megaloscopec1775 hand lens1839 watch-maker's glass1875 waling glass1880 loupe1909 texture-counter1909 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Waling glass, a weaver's counting glass, which magnifies a small portion of the surface of linen, and thus enables the set or count to be ascertained. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). walingn.2 1. The wales or horizontal timbers with which piles are braced; also, one of such timbers, a wale; a long horizontal member used to brace the lining of an excavation or the walls of a form. (Cf. wale n.1 5; also foot waling n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > foundation(s) > pile(s) > horizontal bracing for waling1837 wale1886 1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 12/1 To these piles will be fixed three tiers of waling of whole timbers. 1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 592 After the timbers are fixed, they are braced by what are called ‘walings’. 1893 J. P. Allen Pract. Building Constr. xxii. 349 Where the ground is looser the poling boards must be placed closer together, perpendicularly, with walings, which are placed horizontally inside them. 1932 Dowsett & Bartle Pract. Formwork & Shuttering ii. 19 The ribs are held in position by uprights made from 3″ × 6″ material; these uprights—frequently referred to as ‘soldiers’—are in turn held by 3″ × 6″ horizontal timbers called ‘walings’. 1966 C. K. Austin Formwork to Concrete (ed. 2) 282 The principle on which this system works, is that of a single form consisting of standard steel panels supported by steel channel walings sliding between soldiers against the concrete face. 1972 V. C. Launder Foundations x. 132 Vertical planks or baulks are driven into the ground at the sides of the excavation as it proceeds and held vertical by horizontal timbers called walings, strutted across the trench width. 2. Nautical. The timbers forming the wale of a boat; in combination waling-piece, ? = wale-piece n. (a) at wale n.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > each continuous line of planking > uppermost walec1330 wale-stock1350 gunwale1466 port-last1612 planeshearc1620 planksheeringa1687 portoise1705 wale-piece1739 sheer-strake1805 sheer-wale1805 planksheer1827 sheer1841 covering-board1846 wale-streak1856 waling-piece1909 1909 Westm. Gaz. 6 Jan. 7/4 Some of the survivors saved themselves by seizing the collier's whaling-piece. 3. Basket-making. (The process of weaving) a band of rods which forms a wale (see wale n.1 6); the wales of a basket. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > basket-making > [noun] > specific processes pairing1611 straw-plaiting1834 flat-skein work1912 waling1912 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > randed work or basketry > waling wale1907 waling1912 1912 T. Okey Introd. Art of Basket-making vii. 80 The butts of the waling being pieced in at the front. 1912 T. Okey Introd. Art of Basket-making xi. 135 The waling of the upsett will be begun at each side. 1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts Eng. iii. x. 164 The uprights must now be set very firmly in position by several strong rows of waling. 1964 H. Hodges Artifacts x. 146 Where three rods were used simultaneously with a crossing..the weave is referred to as waling. 1983 Daily Tel. 20 Sept. 15/5 There is a border of ‘waling’ at the base of the basket. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). walingn.3 Military. The process of making a gabion or hurdle; also, the basket-work thus made. Also attributive as waling rod. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > gabions or fascines > action of making waling1852 1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) i. 83 Clayon,..waling-rod... Clayonnage,..wattling;..waling. 1892 G. Philips Text Bk. Fortif. Sandhurst (ed. 5) iii. iii. 88 In brushwood gabions the basket work is called the web, and the process of making it is termed waling. 1892 F. Irwin Notes Fortif. (ed. 2) 60 To make a Wickerwork Gabion... Wale the web by passing each rod in succession over the other two..till the waling is 2-ft. 6-in. high. 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