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▪ I. potting, vbl. n.1|ˈpɒtɪŋ|
[f. pot v.1 + -ing1.]
1. Drinking (of ale, beer, or the like); tippling. arch. (chiefly with allusion to Shakespeare's use).
1594Lyly Moth. Bomb. iii. ii, What Risio, how spedst thou after thy potting? 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 79, I learn'd it in England; where indeed they are most potent in Potting. 1719D'Urfey Pills V. 66 Potting and sotting..Will make a good Soldier miscarry. 1864Hemyng Eton School Days viii. 95 Bird's-eye's patrons would..sit in his cottage and smoke and drink beer, for they were ‘potent at potting’.
2. The making of pottery or earthenware.
1743N. Jersey Archives XII. 158 This is exceedingly good for potting or any sort of Cast ware. 1877R. Binns (title) A Century of Potting in the City of Worcester, being the History of the Royal Porcelain Works from 1751 to 1851. 1894Westm. Gaz. 7 May 3/1 Potting is one of the oldest industries in the world. 1970[see Ming b]. 1976P. Flower Crisscross i. 6 How Sibyl loved it all: calling meetings..in between her potting.
3. a. The preserving of butter, meat, fish, etc. in pots or other vessels.
1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. vi. (1668) 147 Touching the powdering up, or potting of Butter. 1755Farrington in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 211 The cure and potting of charrs well. 1876Ruskin Fors Clav. VI. 254 Catching and potting of salmon on the Columbia River. 1891Auckland Star 1 Oct. 4/2 Butter... Already the low price has caused many farmers to commence potting down.
b. Sugar Manuf. (See pot v.1 2 b.)
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1203 The act of transferring the crude concrete sugar from the crystallisers into these hogs-heads, is called potting. 1887N. D. Davis Cavaliers & Roundh. Barbados 90 From the last copper the clarified liquor was run off into a cistern to ‘cool’, or become milk-warm, when the operation of ‘potting’ began.
c. Woollen Manufacture. (See quots.)
1920J. M. Matthews Application of Dyestuffs i. 66 An operation very similar to that of decatizing is known as potting. This is a treatment of woollen goods with steam and hot water for the purpose of producing a particular character of finish. 1927Horsfall & Lawrie Dyeing of Textile Fibres ix. 275 Potting. This process is applied to fabrics of the faced type... The cloth is wound..on to a perforated roll which..is placed upright in a cistern in cold water. 1951Rev. Textile Progress II. 329 Blowing..does not yield such good results as potting, i.e., winding the cloth on a roller and heating it in water at about 160°F. for periods varying from a few hours to four days. 1961Blackshaw & Brightman Dict. Dyeing 137 Potting, a finishing process for wool cloths in which a roll of fabric is treated in water at 70–100°C. for several hours, then allowed to cool slowly, and finally immersed in cold water to set the fabric.
d. The act or process of abridging, condensing, or summarizing.
1909Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 1/6 Drury Lane Dignity is down on Apollo Impudence for using the title of ‘The Whip’ in the ‘potting’ department of ‘The Follies’, and the seriousness of the whole business is expressed in Mr. Pelissier's startled cry to the British public: ‘Hurry up! We have had a letter from Messrs. Hamilton and Raleigh's solicitors objecting to our burlesque of ‘The Whip’, so we may be locked up at any moment.’ 1966Punch 9 Oct. 521/3 The enormous subject is covered by rapid potting... The potting is efficient: the course of the 1914–18 War on the Western Front..is explained with much greater clarity than usual.
4. Planting in, or transplanting into, a pot.
1845Florist's Jrnl. 83 The success of cultivation..is invariably connected with a correct arrangement and proportion of the soil, &c., in potting.
5. a. crab-potting, the catching of crabs in pots: cf. pot n.1 5 b, crab-pot (crab n.1 13).
1891Pall Mall G. 17 Aug. 3/1 We may meet a fisherman returning from crab potting. 1902Cutcliffe Hyne in Windsor Mag. July (title) The Gentle Art of Crab-Potting.
b. dial. The catching of lobsters in pots.
1971Nat. Geographic Apr. 556/2 We were out potting. Potting? Lobstering, bringing in the pots.
6. a. Shooting; taking of pot-shots: see pot v.1 5. colloq. or slang.
1884St. James' Gaz. 5 Dec. 4/1 The potting of Arabs rightly struggling to be free continues merrily at Suakim. 1902Words Eye-witness 43 It is commonly well on into the morning before the ‘potting’ swells into the rattle and roll which tells that men are hard at it ‘with their coats off’.
b. Billiards. The act or process of knocking a ball into one of the pockets.
1909in Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1935Encycl. Sports 571/1 The practical application of this knowledge will make potting easy for many who find it inordinately difficult. 1950Hoyle's Games Modernized (ed. 20) iii. 340 The most successful [pool] player is not necessarily he who can ‘pot’ with the deadliest accuracy, but he who combines potting with effectively playing for position. 1956E. Grierson Second Man iv. 59 Gilroy put an exquisite edge on his potting, though he did have a tendency to overdo it and go in off.
7. Encapsulation of a circuit or component in an insulating material (cf. pot v.1 2 c). Freq. attrib.
1947Plastics July 57/1 During the war, exacting mechanical and electrical stability requirements of special electronic applications..necessitated the potting of the circuit components. 1955Rep. Progress Appl. Chem. XL. 508 A typical potting resin comprises a mixture of 2:4-toluylene diisocyanate (20–40%), monomeric styrene (up to 10%), and castor oil, lactic acid being used as a catalyst. 1962M. C. Volk et al. Electr. Encapsulation i. 5 Potting is the simplest cavity-filling process. Procedure consists of positioning the component in its container (‘pot’), adding encapsulant to fill the pot, then curing to polymerize or harden the encapsulant.
8. The action or an instance of causing a baby or young child to sit on a chamber-pot.
1948Practitioner Dec. 505 It is as well that the infant should suffer the experience of ‘potting’ quite early, and should come to appreciate that the environment reacts less encouragingly to random disposal of excreta than to its opposite. 1953R. S. Illingworth Normal Child xxvii. 283 Provided that there is never a fight to keep the child on the chamber and the child does not resist, ‘potting’ is a harmless procedure. 1958Observer 20 Apr. 8/4 Much else that controverts the views of Sir Truby King, and his ‘Mothercraft’ disciples, on early potting, bodily guilt, schedule feeding. 1960Guardian 1 Apr. 7/1, I attended to the telephone, ‘potting’ of small child, and comforting child after fall. 1967Ibid. 1 May 4/4 The job extends to getting the children up... No doubt the next 10 years will see minor changes—no more potting, for example. 1972J. Gathorne-Hardy Rise & Fall of Brit. Nanny viii. 265 Nearly incessant potting..produces a high..quota of wins.
9. attrib. and Comb., as (in sense 2) potting business, potting industry, potting trade; (? in sense 3) potting-dish; (in sense 4) potting bench, potting compost, potting-house, potting-shed, potting soil; potting-cask, in Sugar Manuf. (see pot v.1 2 b); potting-pot, a pot such as is used for potting meat; potting-stick, a flat stick used to press down the soil about the root of a plant in a pot.
1874Gardeners' Chron. 17 Jan. 95/3 A movable wooden tray, shaped like the top of a *potting bench..will answer the purpose. 1935A. G. L. Hellyer Pract. Gardening xxx. 185 (caption) The principal ingredients may well be stored in bins under the potting bench.
1766J. Wedgwood Let. 15 Sept. (1965) 42 As our connections are to become extensive in the *Potting business, it is absolutely necessary you should visit the Manufacture.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1204 [The syrup] is then transferred..into conical moulds..their capacity..is considerably less than that of the smallest *potting-casks.
1916M. Hampden Flower Culture ii. 38 Silver sand and old manure, chopped fine, may make up one part of the ordinary *potting compost. 1971P. D. James Shroud for Nightingale vi. 183 There were balls of green twine,..packets of seed,..a small plastic bag of potting compost and one of fertilizer. 1976J. Berrisford Backyards & Tiny Gardens xv. 107 Bedding plants do well also in John Innes potting compost No. 2.
1569Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 302 In the Hall..xixth peace of puder, fyue saucers, three *pottyndysshes xijd.
1825Cromwell Hist. Colchester 352 A Seed-shop, *Potting-house, &c.
1901Scotsman 1 Apr. 7/2 The dangerous processes in use in the *potting industry.
1739E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 9) 52 Mackrel to pot..place them close in your *potting-pots, and pour clarified butter on the top. 1747H. Glasse Cookery (1767) 230 When it is beat to a paste, put it into your potting-pot.
1874Gardeners' Chron. 17 Jan. 95/3 The manure and compost yard should include a *potting shed. 1902W. B. Yeats Where there is Nothing (1903) i. 14 Come over here to the potting shed. 1907E. Gosse Father & Son vii. 181 My Father would..bolt..round the garden into the potting-shed. 1940J. Betjeman Old Lights for New Chancels 48 Back down the Avenue, back to the pottingshed. 1976Derbyshire Times (Peak ed.) 3 Sept. 18/1 (Advt.), Detached garage, well-established gardens to front and rear, potting shed.
1908Daily Chron. 29 Feb. 9/1 This material [sc. manure from mushroom growing] is in excellent condition for mixing with *potting soil as a fertiliser. 1936Forestry X. 12 The potting soil used was a standard mixture.
1897Garden 2 Jan. 9/3 They place the new compost about them, and make it firm by ramming with the *potting stick.
▪ II. potting, vbl. n.2
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