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▪ I. charging, vbl. n.|ˈtʃɑːdʒɪŋ|
a. The action of the verb charge, in various senses.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 247 Charging and lading of Waggons. 1570Act 13 Eliz. c. 20 §1 All Chargings of such Benefices..with any Pension. c1610Raleigh Let. Prince Wales in Rem. (1868) cxlv, The high charging of ships..brings many ill qualities. a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 344/1 They [the guns] are easier in Charging. 1748Franklin Lett. Wks. 1840 V. 198 We are of opinion, that there is really no more electrical fire in the phial after what is called its charging, than before, nor less after its discharging. 1784J. Barry Lect. Art vi. (1848) 223 A greater degree of pastosity, or charging of colour, on those parts. 1885Pall Mall G. 2 Jan. 10/1 The car..can be run for two hours with one charging of the accumulators. 1887Ibid. 14 Nov. 3/2 The wild charging goes on.
Comb. † charging-horse = charger 5, q.v.
1695Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 507, 15 charging horses embarqued at Deptford. 1712–1818in Charger 5.
b. attrib. and Comb. in the names of appliances connected with the charging of a furnace, gas retort, battery, blast-hole, etc., as charging barrow, charging current, charging door, charging shop, charging spoon, etc.
a1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Charging Barrow, a double-wheel barrow, for use in iron furnaces for conveyance of coal, coke, limestone, and ore, to be dumped in at the tunnel-head of the blast furnace.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Charging-current, in elect., the current used in charging a storage battery, condenser, or cable. 1961Listener 9 Nov. 768/2 A cable, say fifty miles long, operating at a pressure of 100,000 volts, would be charged and discharged with every alternation of current, and this charging current, as it is called, would reach such large proportions that a cable this long would become completely impracticable.
1908Westm. Gaz. 6 Aug. 7/3 The charging-door in the furnace.
1895Daily News 25 July 3/5 In one of these erections, known as a charging ‘shop’..the explosion happened.
1894C. Le N. Foster Ore & Stone Mining 161 The charging-spoon is a hollow half-cylinder of copper or zinc, at the end of a copper or wooden rod, which is used for introducing loose gunpowder into holes which are more or less horizontal.
▪ II. ˈcharging, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That charges; in various senses of the verb.
1576A. Hall Acc. Quarrel (1815) 21 The Mayor, with charging wordes, commaunded him. 1886Daily News 8 Sept. 6/1 The 3-cell battery gives a light equal to 25 candles immediately after removal from the charging source.
2. charging-order: an order from a judge binding the stocks or funds of a judgement debtor with the judgement debt.
1881Times 14 Apr. 10/4 That instead of a conveyance and mortgage, there should be substituted a simple charging-order, which should be free of stamp duty. |