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▪ I. storming, vbl. n.|ˈstɔːmɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the vb. storm.
1461Bale's Chron. in Six Town Chron. (1911) 137 The last day of novembr was a marvelous and dredful sturmyng and noys of the comones and of lordes men at Westminster. 1622J. Taylor (Water P.) Shilling C 5 b, Such storming, fretting, fuming. 1661Reg. Privy Counc. Scot. Ser. iii. I. 26 Gunnis taken..at the stormeing of Dundy. 1667J. Caryl Eng. Princess ii. v. 20 Slow Treaties will to stormings him oblige, Who leisure wants to take the Fort by Siege. a1774W. Whitehead Epist. form Grove 11 For here, for all my master's storming, I'm sure we strangely want reforming. 1913G. Edmundson Church in Rome in 1st Cent. vi. 169 The storming and burning of the Capitol by the foreign mercenaries of Vitellius.
▪ II. storming, ppl. a.|ˈstɔːmɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
1. That storms or rages.
1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 242 And all my storming dayes be past, and weather waxeth faire. 1591Spenser Ruins of Time 404 Wise words..Recorded by the Muses, liue for ay; Ne may with storming showers be washt away. 1619A. Newman Pleasures Vision 10 Blowne and tost, like ships in storming wind. 1622J. Taylor (Water P.) Farew. Tower Bottles A 4 b, Showring hayleshot, from the storming heau'n. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. v. v, A dumb inarticulately storming Whirlwind of things. 1852Tennyson Ode Wellington 155 Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers. 1905Daily Chron. 14 July 3/1 The learned doctor is in a storming fury.
absol.1712Steele Spect. No. 438 ⁋4 The Hectoring, the Storming, the Sullen, and all the different Species and Subordinations of the Angry.
2. That attacks in order to take by storm; chiefly in storming party.
1802C. James Milit. Dict., Storming Party, a select body of men, consisting generally of the grenadiers, who first enter the breach, &c. 1829J. Shipp Mem. II. 185 The storming parties were ordered to be in readiness about two o'clock. 1864Skeat Uhland's Poems 69 The storming hosts rush on. 1894Wolseley Life Marlborough II. lxv. 195 The ecstasy of reckless daring which takes possession of the soldier in a storming party. 1894Blackmore Perlycross xi, Three old Officers..brave men as ever led a storming column.
Hence ˈstormingly adv.
a1600Hooker Wks. (1888) II. 593 But there are, whose stubborn spirits will..hereupon stormingly reply.
Add:3. slang (chiefly in Sport). Displaying outstanding vigour, speed, or skill.
1961Boxing News 20 Oct. 11/2 The Filipino tried hard to put in a storming finish. 1972Times 13 Sept. 9/6 To score by a neck from Day Two, who came with a storming run in the last 100yds. 1987Kart & Superkart Oct. 8/3 From pole position he failed to get away at the change of lights but then proceeded to give a storming display to take the lead..on lap six. |