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awning|ˈɔːnɪŋ|
Also (7 yawning), 8 auning.
[A word of obscure origin, apparently at first only in nautical use. Probably to be referred (as by Wedgwood) to Fr. auvent ‘a penthouse of cloth, etc. before a shop window, etc.’ Cotgr., early plurals in Littré auvens, auvans, med.L. auvanna, auvannus, whence *auvan, *auwn, awn; the termination is of course Eng. -ing. E. Müller refers it to Low German havenung, f. haven harbour, in sense of ‘a shelter from wind and weather’; Skeat compares ‘Pers. áwan, áwang, anything suspended, awangān hanging, awnang a clothes-line’; but neither of these is applied in its own language to an awning; in particular an oriental origin seems incompatible with the history. F. auvent is itself of doubtful etymol. See Diez, Littré, Du Cange.]
1. A roof-like covering of canvas or similar material, used as a shelter from sun, rain, etc.; esp. above the deck of a vessel.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia in Harper's Mag. Apr. (1884) 712/1 Wee did hang an awning (which is an old saile) to..trees to shadow us from the Sunne. 1626― Accid. Yng. Seamen 30 A trar-pawling or yawning. 1627― Seaman's Gram. vi. 27 An Awning..is but the bots saile..brought ouer the yard and stay, and boumed out with the boat hooke. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Orange tree, An Awning of Bass-Mats..will..keep the Sun and Winds from the Orange-Trees. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile vi. 135 Too hot on deck without the awning.
2. transf.
a. Naut. That part of the poop-deck which is continued forward beyond the bulk-head of the cabin; hence awning-deck(ed.
b. gen. A shelter.
1764Veitch in Phil. Trans. LIV. 292 The auning, which is a projection of the deck of the cabin to shelter from the sun or rain. 1826H. N. Coleridge West Indies 206 An alley of the graceful bamboo..which might serve for a temporary awning. 1869E. J. Reed Ship Build. xv. 294 These ships..have a complete spar deck..and an awning-deck above this. 1879H. F. Craggs in Daily News 19 Apr. 3/3 All ocean steamers should be..awning-decked fore and aft.
Hence awninged |ˈɔːnɪŋd|, ppl. a. [see -ed2], furnished with an awning; (with awninged off cf. railed off). ˈawningless a., without awning.
1881E. Coxon Basil Pl. I. 78 Before the awninged door. 1881Nicholson Sword to Share xxiv. 174 A small portion—over the propeller—is awninged off. 1865M. E. Braddon Only a Clod xxxiii. 267 In an awningless boat under a broiling sun. |