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steening, vbl. n.|ˈstiːnɪŋ|
Also steaning, steining, steyning.
[f. steen v. + -ing1.]
1. concr. The lining of a well or other excavation.
1767Ann. Reg., Chron. 56/1 The steining [of the well] fel in upon him and inclosed him at the bottom. 1783Phil. Trans. LXXIV. 13 A brick steening, of two bricks thick in tarris, [was] raised gradually towards the top of the well. 1898F. Davis Silchester 40 They [the wells] were mostly lined with a flint steining as far as the water. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) i. x. 80 The well was old, and broad, with a good stone steyning, and a strong coping round the top. 1939Oxoniensia IV. 94 They might have been stones used to edge or pave the mouth of the well, as similar fragments of stone occurred in most wells, but they could not be taken as steyning.
2. dial.
a. A paved ford across a river.
1838Holloway Prov. Dict., Steaning. 1887S. H. A. Hervey in Wedmore Chron. I. 288 (E.D.D.) Here I suppose was once a stream; and they crossed it by a stenning.
b. (See quot.)
1886W. Somerset Word-bk., Steening,..2. The metal fresh laid on a road. |