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▪ I. mailing, n. Sc.|ˈmeɪlɪŋ|
Also 5 malyn, 5–7 mailling, 6 maling, 8 mealing, 8–9 mailin, mailen.
[f. mail n.2 + -ing1.]
1. A rented farm.
1452[see mailer1 1]. 1459Peebles Charters, etc. (1872) 132 That neuir nan of hym na his sed com in that malyn agan. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. xii. (Wolf & Lamb) xvii, Thay gif na rak, Bot ouer his heid his mailling will thay tak. 1562Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 222 Thair landis, fischeingis, malingis, rowmes, and possessionis. 1674W. Cuningham Diary 24 Aug. (1887) 3 John Murdie who dwells in a mailling neir by. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. v. iii, And to your heirs, I give, in endless feu, The mailens ye possess. a1818Macneill Poems (1844) 78 Greenswaird hows, and dainty mealing. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xx, I had two or three bonnie bits of mailings amang the closes. 1843Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. 11. 64 The farmer and his family..managed their limited mailings, without extrinsic aid.
2. The rent paid for a farm.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. i, Nor shor'd to raise Our mailens when we put on Sunday claes. 1768Ross Helenore i. 13 Our house is happed, an' our mailen paid. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. viii, Let the creatures stay at a moderate mailing.
3. The term during which a tenant possesses a farm (Jam.).
1609Skene Reg. Maj. 113 Nor ȝit is he prejudged in his right be the deed of his Fermour, done be him in the time of his mailling.
▪ II. † ˈmailing, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. mail v.3 + -ing1.]
The action of tying or wrapping up. (attrib.)
1531Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VIII (1827) 159 Item for mayling Clothes and Cordes to trusse the same stuf. 1548Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 35 Item, for iij. maylinge coordes to hange up the vaile in the quyre afore the alter. 1558Lanc. Wills (1857) I. 177 On malinge sheete of canvas xijd. 1569Bury Wills (Camd. Soc.) 155 A malyn lyne withe my woadfat coveryings. 1578Richmond Wills (Surtees) 282 A capp case, a malynge cover.
▪ III. mailing, vbl. n.2 U.S.|ˈmeɪlɪŋ|
[f. mail v.4]
The action of sending by mail; posting. Also attrib., as mailing machine, mailing table; mailing list orig. U.S., a register of addresses to which goods and postal matter may be sent; mailing shot Advertising, material dispatched to potential customers as part of an advertising campaign.
1871Amer. Encycl. Print. (ed. Ringwalt) 292/2 Mailing Machines, contrivances..to facilitate the operation of directing newspapers. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Mailing Table, a table at which mail matter is distributed to the mail bags. 1900Daily News 8 Jan. 3/1 Up to the time of mailing no particulars are to hand. 1909Daily Chron. 12 Oct. 4/5 In the States there are 600,000 farmers on the mailing list. 1928Publishers' Weekly 26 May 2201 It is proposed that the booksellers of the country place in this Clearing House..duplicates of their mailing lists. 1961Lebende Sprachen VI. 70/1 Office furniture, machines and supplies..mailing list. 1968Heidelberg News (Heidelberg Printing Machinery Co.) Sept. 3/3 The primary aim of a mailing shot is to obtain sales leads. So include a reply paid card and only as much information as is needed to provoke interest. 1969Times 5 Nov. 21/2 A gift offer of a beauty pack with a new bathroom cleaner, real shillings back in an off-pack offer for the bleach, mailing shots, and trade press advertising. 1972Times 30 Nov. 23/5 They decided to go ahead with a 10,000 mailing shot, coupled with..advertisements. 1973Sat. Rev. Society (U.S.) May 68/2 Ask to be put on the mailing list for Selected U.S. Government Publications.
Add:b. A batch of mail or a number of items posted at one time, esp. as part of a publicity campaign, survey, etc. Also, a letter, parcel, etc., sent by post.
1928Metered Postage Regulation (U.S. Senate Comm. Post-Offices & Post Roads) 3 In the case of first-class matter..each mailing should consist of not less than 100 pieces. a1961Canada Year Bk. in Webster s.v., Over a million domestic postcards, circulars, parcels, and other mailings reached the Dead Letter Office. 1971Publishers' Weekly 22 Mar. 14 Publishers for Peace..has just gotten out a mailing concerning the planned April 24 March On Washington. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 7 Feb. 8/2 She sent the mailing off to Roberta Wieloszynski and the Syracuse Consumer Affairs Unit. 1983H. G. Lewis Mail Order Advertising viii. 187 The mailing may not make sense, and the sequence in which ideas are presented can be out of phase. 1991Precision Marketing 16 Sept. 5/3 The mailings consist of 50–100,000-strong roll-outs several times a year. |