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seating, vbl. n.|ˈsiːtɪŋ|
[f. seat n. and v. + -ing1.]
†1. The action of providing with a residence, or of settling in a country; quasi-concr. opportunity for settling, footing. Also (N. Amer.) colonization, settlement (of a country). Obs.
1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 666 Also doe I greatly mislike the lord Deputyes seating at Dublin. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 153 Promising also to giue them aid for the seating of them there [in Achaia and Bœotia]. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. vii. §9 There are reported to haue come into Ireland..& finding no seating there to haue entered into Britaine. 1624Wotton Elem. Archit. 6 In the seating of our selues..Builders should bee as circumspect as Wooers. 1699Phil. Trans. XXI. 441 At the first Seating of Maryland there were several Nations of Indians in the Country.
2. The action of providing with seats; the manner in which a building, etc. is seated; concr. the seats with which a building, etc. is provided.
1880Daily News 7 Oct. 2/5 The seating of the church is but little altered. 1895Ibid. 11 Dec. 5/3 Additional seating has been provided.
3. Material for upholstering the seats of chairs, etc.
1790Pennsylvania Packet 11 Dec. 1/2 A very choice Parcel of Hair Seatings, of various widths and patterns. 1833J. Bennett Artificer's Lexicon 366 Seating. Horse⁓hair for sofas, chairs, &c. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Seating, horse-hair fabric, American leather, or other materials, made for covering the cushions of chairs, couches, &c. 1909Athenæum 20 Mar. 340/1 Chair-seating..most of this seating is now done with split canes instead of rushes.
4. Mech. A fitted support for a part of a structure or machine, usually pl. or collect. sing.
1844Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VII. 191/1 An arrangement like that of the plunger pump, which permitted both valves to be fixed in seatings. 1868Fairley Gloss. Coal-Mining Bristol, etc. 29 Seating, the place in the pumps where the clack is seated. 1889Hasluck Model Eng. Handybk. (1900) 71 The seatings for the lugs of the cylinder.
5. a. That part of a structure, etc. which rests on some other part. Ship-building (see quot. 1805: and cf. seat n. 22).
1805Shipwright's Vade-mecum 129 Seating, that part of the floor which fays on the deadwood; and of a transom which fays against the post. 1838Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 178/2 The wedges were then struck, and the weight of the ribs thrown upon their seatings and head joints. 1889in Anglin Design of Structures (1891) 488 All girders shall have seatings of the best hair felt, graduated in lengths so as to insure the pressure being on the centre of bearing when the greatest load is on the girder.
b. The raised outer part of a horseshoe which rests on the wall of the hoof; also, the hollowing out of a horseshoe so that the outer part rests on the wall of the hoof.
1831W. Youatt Horse xvii. 319 A strip of felt or leather is sometimes placed between the seating of the shoe and the crust. 1908Animal Managem. (War Office) 228 The object of seating is to take pressure off the sole.
6. Of garments: the process of going out of shape at the seat.
1960Sunday Express 11 Sept. 15/4 Never wear a slick, straight skirt without a tight-fitting slip beneath... That way there'll be no ‘seating’. 1974Lippman & Erskine Dressmaking made Simple iii. 53 Linings are essential in straight skirts to prevent seating.
7. attrib.
a. (of sense 4), as seating block, seating-face, seating plate.
1838Civ. Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 178/1 The masonry at each end [of the bridge] was ready to receive the cast-iron seating plates of the wood arch. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 55/1 Boiler Seating Blocks. 1925Morris Owner's Man. 77 These two photographs show a valve before..and after grinding-in. Note the different appearance of their seating faces.
b. (In the sense of providing seats or sitting room for), as seating accommodation, seating capacity, seating plan.
1887Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 2/2 In no case should the seating capacity [of a theatre] ever be exceeded. 1907H. Wyndham Flare of Footlights i, The seating accommodation [of the theatre] embodied every new device for the comfort of its occupants that ingenuity could suggest. 1929‘E. Queen’ Roman Hat Mystery xxii. 303 We had already borrowed a seating-plan. 1949M. Mead Male & Female 406 Men holding the highest titles from each village were combined in a formal seating-plan. 1974O. Manning Rain Forest i. vi. 75 Millman, seating-plan in hand, put Murodi at Lady Urquhart's right and Ogden on her left. |