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grassing, vbl. n.|ˈgrɑːsɪŋ, -æ-|
[f. grass n.1 or v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. in various senses.
a. Spreading out (flax, etc.) on the grass for bleaching (see grass v. 4 a).
b. Printing. The taking of casual work (see grass v. 6 b.).
1780A. Young Tour Irel. I. 224 Taking out and grassing [Flax]..0. 5. 0. 1797― Agric. Suffolk 121 The grassing [of hemp] requires about five weeks. 1844Sproule Flax (1846) 23 Too little watering is given in this country, trusting to the grassing afterwards to make up the deficiency. 1875Southward Dict. Typogr. 44 Many compositors earn a good income by grassing. 1888Jacobi Printers' Voc., Grassing, a compositor taking occasional jobs, or assisting on a newspaper.
2. Sc.
a. The place for cutting turfs and for grazing cattle.
b. The privilege of grazing in a specified place.
1557in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 388 The pasture and grassing of Capney-vaugh. 1630–56Sir R. Gordon Earld. Sutherland (1813) 344 The ffealing and girsing of Aldinalbanagh. Ibid. 351 Sir Robert gave vnto John Robsone some lands about Dounrobin, with the girsin of Badinlogh. 1632Rec. Inverness Presbyt. (Scot. Hist. Soc., 1896) 25 They went and measured and marched the Gleib and grassing thereof as followeth. 1825Brockett N.C. Words s.v. Whittle, An harden sark, a guse grassing, and a whittle gait, were all the salary of a clergyman, not many years ago, in Cumberland.
†3. The laying on of a first or ground colour; the colour itself. Obs.
1538Elyot Dict., Sublitio, the grounde colour, wheron the colour is layde, in cloth dyed it is callyd grasynge perfyte. 1570Levins Manip. 136/17 Y⊇ Grasing of cloths, sublitio. |