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▪ I. aˈssembling, vbl. n. [f. as prec. + -ing1.] Gathering together, meeting. Also in obs. senses: a. Attack, onslaught. b. Union of two, coupling.
1375Barbour Bruce xii. 515 The remanant..That mycht cum to the assembling. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋830 Whan thay take noon reward in her assembling but only to the fleischly delit. c1450Lonelich Grail xiii. 539 He sawgh twey batailles..That weren redy to the assemblyng. 1611Bible Heb. x. 25 Not forsaking the assembling of our selues together. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 205 The Parliaments of Ireland had then no fixed place of assembling. 1894Harper's Mag. July 252/1 The assembling, as the process of shrinking on the various parts which go to make up the modern cannon is called. 1926Time 14 June 34/2 In 1924 he profited $25,000,000 by shipping parts to district assembling plants. ▪ II. assembling, ppl. a.|əˈsɛmblɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing2] That assemble, gathering.
1619Sir J. Finett Let. in Eng. & Germ. (1865) 63 The now assembling powres of the Archdukes. 1697Dryden Georg. iv. 802 Straight issue thro' the Sides assembling Swarms. |