单词 | water tabling |
释义 | water tablingn. 1. Architecture. Water tables (water table n. 1) collectively; a line of water tables. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > structures for throwing off rainwater water board1372 water table1428 water tabling1520 weatherboard1568 weather-spar1632 throat1736 weathering1739 creasing1823 weather-table1839 dashboard1881 watershed1886 waterboarding1927 1520 in E. Beveridge Burgh Rec. Dunfermline (1917) 171 The said Gavin biggand ane gavill of stane and bovaland one the said Johne Vilsone syd, wytht vatter tabilling one the sammyn part. 1578 Churchwardens' Accts. Minchinhampton in Archaeologia (1853) 35 431 For the water tablinge of Anslowes chapele and the bynche of the porche, xvj s. iiij d. 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 32 120 feet of water-tabling. 1893 Reliquary Jan. 14 The east and west walls were surmounted by gables. These seem to have been covered with a water-tabling and surmounted by crosses. 1909 Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Field Club 30 192 The gable end is carried up and finished with a water tabling with base plinths at the springing. 1987 Transactions (Caernarvonshire Hist. Soc.) 48 127 The chimneys at each gable have plain square rubble stacks with a water tabling of thin slates. 2004 A. D. Saunders Fortress Builder iv. 121 Moor stone was used for the water tabling. 2. The action or process of renovating with sods the side of a ditch worn away below the roots of a hedge. Cf. water table n. 2. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > ridge on which hedge is > sod of water tabling1797 table turf1805 table-sod1844 1797 J. Home Rectified Rep. Berwickshire Agric. App. 153 Water tabling, with one sod or seal, and cleaning the thorns, 1 d. per rood. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 573 It should be borne in mind that water-tabling can only be executed in the best manner after the hedge has been thoroughly pruned. 1880 Rep. Tenant Farmer' s Delegates Dominion of Canada 37/2 Even the present roads can be greatly improved by the judicious use of brushwood and proper water tabling. 1979 D. Hartley Land of Eng. 73 This type of dyke and hedge, on an old farm, would gradually wear down, the soil crumbling down and filling up the ditch. The reviving of such a dyke hedge was called ‘water tabling’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1520 |
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