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▪ I. ripping, vbl. n.|ˈrɪpɪŋ|
[f. rip v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. in various senses:
a. In lit. or technical uses. Also concr., that which is ripped off.
1532[see rip v.2 2 b]. 1611Cotgr., Descousure, a ripping, vnsowing, vndoing of. 1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Gard. (1626) 16 Here you must be carefull, not to hurt your tree when you gather them, by ripping amongst the roots. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. (1705) 482 The Ripping of a Hang-nail is sufficient to Dispatch us. 1801Coleridge in Mrs. Sandford T. Poole & Friends (1888) II. 27 When your Ripping [of oak-bark] is over you will come, or, at furthest, immediately after hay harvest. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. xiv. 331 These rods were afterwards further reduced by an ingenious operation, called by the workmen in this country ripping or rumpling. 1894Labour Commission Gloss., Ripping, that portion of the roof which is cut down in the roadways to make sufficient height for men and horses to travel. 1900in Farmer Public School Word-bk. 167. 1911 R. Nevill Floreat Etona vii. 224 In the days when such a close connection existed between Eton and King's, a Colleger leaving to go to Cambridge used to go through the old form known as ‘Ripping’... The two folds of the Colleger's serge gown were sewn together in front, and the Provost ‘ripped’ them asunder. 1973‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed iv. 41 The case for the defence collapsed..when Big Dick boasted..that the attack was ‘the biggest rippin' Ah've done’. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Jan. 93/1, I was very interested in your ideas about shifting the rippings from the coal face and spreading it into the sea.
b. In fig. uses. Const. up.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 55 With the ripping up of ciuil commutations and chaunges. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 629/1 This ripping up of auncient historyes, is very pleasing unto me, and indeede savoureth of good conceite. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 267 Indeuour the ripping vp of thy heart. 1674Essex Papers (Camden) 254 If..there should be now a ripping up of Crimes,..no man can see where it will stop. 1843J. W. Croker in C. Papers 5 Dec. (1884), I cannot..understand what authority can exist for such a ripping up of private life. 1863Sat. Rev. 12 Sept. 352 Five years ago, there was a great ripping-up of the skirts of society.
2. a. attrib., as ripping-bed, ripping-cut, ripping-gauge, ripping-hook, ripping-iron, ripping-tool. Also ripping-chisel, -saw.
1850Holtzapffel Turning III. 1206 For cutting slabs of marble into narrow pieces..a machine called a *ripping bed is employed.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 220 If planks are sawed longitudinally, through their thickness, the saw-way is called a *ripping-cut.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1945/2 The *ripping-gage..is screwed to the table, and, by means of a thumb-nut, is adjusted to cut square or beveling.
1825Knapp & Baldw. Newgate Cal. IV. 57/2 The instrument called a *ripping-hook.
1846A. Young Naut. Dict., *Ripping-Iron, a tool used in stripping copper, or thin wood-sheathing, off a vessel's bottom. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Ripping-Iron, a caulker's tool for tearing oakum out of a seam.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1946/1 *Ripping-tool, one for following a seam and cutting stitches without slitting the fabric.
b. Aeronaut. Used attrib. with reference to a strip of fabric sown into and forming part of the skin of a balloon and to the cord which, when pulled, tears this strip away to bring about rapid deflation, as ripping cord, ripping line, ripping panel, ripping rope, ripping valve.
1907Strand Mag. Feb. 149/1 The utility of the ripping-cord was brought home to me..in a recent ascent. 1908A. Hildebrandt Airships Past & Present xvi. 184 The ripping-cord was the invention of the American aeronaut, Wise, in 1844; Godard introduced it in France in 1855. 1910Ripping cord [see ripping panel below].
1907Strand Mag. Feb. 151/2 Faure..is the first aeronaut who had the courage to experiment with the ripping-line in mid air. Till he made his first attempt about two years ago, all balloonists thought that to pull the ripping-line anywhere but on the ground meant suicide. 1974Oxford Jun. Encycl. (rev. ed.) IV. 35/2 Among other important equipment is the ripping-line or rip-cord, which is painted red so that it shall not be pulled in mistake for the valve line.
1908A. Hildebrandt Airships Past & Present xvi. 184 The ripping-panel is placed on that side of the covering to which the guide-rope is attached. 1910C. C. Turner Aerial Navigation iii. 45 On coming within a few yards of the ground he pulls the ripping panel open, the cord from which comes down through a hole near the neck of the balloon. In some balloons,..the ripping cord passes through the neck. 1919H. Shaw Text-bk. Aeronaut. xvii. 195 For emergency cases a ‘ripping panel’ is fitted, for use when a quick descent is necessary. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXX. 89/1 One complete series of balloons came down with unexpected suddenness, all being deflated by the rupture of their ripping panels. On examination, it was found that moisture had condensed on the ripping ropes and frozen there, until each cord was about as thick as a man's forearm.
1907G. Bacon Record of Aeronaut xiv. 255 Aeronautical experts..advised..that, as the balloon might have to remain inflated for a long while before starting, one of large size should be employed, and a ‘solid’ or ‘ripping’ valve substituted for the usual ‘Butterfly’ variety. 1912C. B. Hayward Pract. Aeronaut. 51 The usual ‘ripping valve’ is also provided in the form of a narrow strip of balloon fabric glued over a long cut in the envelope.
▪ II. ˈripping, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That rips or tears; also fig., cutting.
1714Arbuthnot Let. to Ford 19 Oct., It is necessary for him to do that.., else there will be a ripping answer, as you say. 1827Cobbett Prot. Reform. (1899) §351 Ripping⁓knives. 1845J. Coulter Adv. Pacific xv. 230 The bark of the various trees also showed many a sign of the ripping passage, or graze of a bullet. 1894T. Pinkerton Blizzard 106 With a ripping slash she cut into a wicker stand. 1896G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 192 Ripping, adj. Sharp, cutting, as applied to cold weather; e.g. ‘a ripping frost’. Midlands. 1932H. J. Massingham World without End 297 Words like..‘ripping’ or ‘sniping’, the adjectives of a very sharp frost..are playlets in themselves. 1978J. Wambaugh Black Marble x. 237, I have a ripping headache.
2.
†a. Very fast or rapid. Obs.
1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 319 They had slipped away down wind, at a ripping pace. 1828Bell's Life 27 July 4/1 The ripping bowling of the Captain. 1846W. Denison Cricket: Sk. Players 22 Mr. Osbaldeston, and Brown of Brighton, afterwards launched forth as ‘fast ripping bowlers’. 1868H. Woodruff Trotting Horse xi. 116 There is no occasion for the ripping spurts which intervene in the other training. 1877London Society June 537/1 Hinkly's bowling was ripping indeed.
b. slang. Excellent, splendid; rattling. Also advb., and as a complement. Now somewhat arch.
1846Swell's Night Guide 74 One calls for the ‘lanciers’; another, the ‘caledonians’; when the Boshman, ripping innocent of either..strikes up the college hornpipe. 1858Thomson Almæ Matres i. 3 Some a little encouraged by the ripping Burton which the Scouts took care to ply liberally. 1887M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike i, We killed on Hagley Heath after a ripping half-hour over the grass. 1894Doyle S. Holmes 57 Old Coxon gave me a ripping good testimonial. 1894‘A. Hope’ Dolly Dialogues ix. 51 She did look ripping in that white frock. 1898[see knock-out n. 4]. 1911D. H. Lawrence White Peacock ii. ii. 229 She was very fine and frank and unconventional—ripping, I thought her. 1921[see dug-up a.]. 1921H. Williamson Beautiful Years 137 Jack was excited about his friend going to school with him. ‘I say, how ripping, man!’ he cried. 1944[see decent a. 5 b]. 1978Palin & Jones (title) Ripping yarns.
Hence ˈrippingly adv., splendidly.
1892H. Nisbet Bushranger's Sweetheart xxvi. 209 ‘How are you getting on with her?’ ‘Rippingly as far as she is concerned’.
▪ III. ripping
dial. variant of reaping. |