| 释义 |
imping, vbl. n.|ˈɪmpɪŋ|
[f. imp v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb imp; grafting, engrafting; the repairing of a hawk's wing with adscititious feathers. In quot. 1340 concr. a shoot, scion, ‘imp’.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxliii. 13 Whas sunnys as new ympyngis in þaire ȝouthede. c1440Promp. Parv. 260/1 Impynge (Pynson or graffinge), insertura. 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 277 The laste maner of ymping is, when a feather is not quyte broken off but broosed. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 352 To the end that you may not faile of this worke of imping. 1852R. R. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus vii. 75 When the tail or the pinions are accidentally broken, the falconer..performs the process of ‘imping’ by neatly sewing and binding to the shaft a substitute which exactly matches the lost part.
b. attrib., as imping needle.
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 277 With an ymping needle layde in Vyneger and Salte, so close them togither as they may be thought to be one feather. 1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. ii. (1677) 230 If a Feather be broken or bruised, he..must have his Imping-needles. |