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▪ I. soaking, vbl. n.|ˈsəʊkɪŋ|
[f. soak v.]
1. a. The action of the vb. in various senses.
c1440Promp. Parv. 463/2 Sokynge, or longe lyynge in lycure, infusio, inbibitura. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 442 These beautifull shapes..not consuming by the soaking of sicknesse. 1611Cotgr., Tremprement, a..steeping, soaking. 1683Tryon Way to Health 288 This soaking so long in your Bed, weakens all the Members. 1722De Foe Col. Jack ii, If we were catched, we run the risk of being ducked or pumped, which we call soaking. 1770H. St. John in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) III. 3 The servants were half dead with the soaking and fatigue. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 307 The company got a complete soaking from the inclemency of the weather. 1881Abney Photogr. 122 Long soaking of the..emulsion is greatly detrimental.
b. pl. Liquid which has soaked through.
1846Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 39 By pumping back the soakings the soluble salts are preserved.
2. In iron-working: A special process by which the heat of an ingot is equally distributed through the mass, in order to fit it for rolling. Also, a similar process in which ingots of other metals or ceramic objects are brought to a uniform temperature in a furnace or kiln.
1884Greenwood Steel & Iron 383 Comparatively little heat escapes during the process of soaking. 1926Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXIII. 648 A cooling curve taken of the 0·48 carbon steel after heating up to 1000°C., and cooled immediately without soaking, gave the ferrite point at the normal temperature. 1964H. Hodges Artifacts i. 39 The early stages of firing [of pottery] are thus slow..; the temperature is allowed to rise slowly by stages, each rise being followed by a period at which a steady temperature is maintained for a time, a process known as soaking. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. VI. 379/1 If the alloy is heated to a temperature not far below its freezing temperature and held at that temperature for a long time, interdiffusion of the alloy constituents will tend to eliminate segregation. Such homogenization treatment is frequently called soaking.
3. attrib., as (sense 1) soaking solution, soaking tub, soaking vat; (sense 2) soaking operation, soaking pit; † soaking club, a drinking club.
1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxi. §35 The tickling of his palate with a glass of wine, or the idle chat of a soaking club. 1853Nicholson's Operat. Mech. (ed. 4) 408 Other trays..are to be piled or placed upon this,..until the soaking-tubs or boilers are sufficiently filled. 1882Gjers in Iron & Steel Institute 568 During the soaking operation, a quantity of gas exudes from the ingot. Ibid., Some of this heat..is lost by radiation before the ingot enters into the soaking pit. 1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 134 For this purpose a soaking vat has to be put up. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bulletin III. 29 The second amendment relates to the soaking solution. 1913Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. LXXXVII. i. 67 With a view to having a regular sequence of hot ingots delivered to Gjers soaking-pits, whilst the centre of the ingot was still liquid,..a central casting-pit was substituted, designed on the Bessemer principle. 1962Gloss. Terms Glass Ind. (B.S.I.) 12 Soaking pit, a conditioning furnace used to bring glass in open pots to a uniform temperature for castings. 1976Steel USSR VI. 196/2 The duration of holding in the soaking pits for 13–18 t ingots from the end of casting to the start of stripping must not exceed 1 h 10 min.
▪ II. soaking, ppl. a.|ˈsəʊkɪŋ|
[f. soak v.]
†1. Taking in moisture, absorbent; fig., drawing to oneself, tending to drain or exhaust. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 463/2 Sokynge grownde, as sondy grownde and other lyke. 1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 159 b, A sokynge consumcion, where in a man complayneth of feblenes and of fayntynes. 1575Churchyard Chippes (1817) 186 But loe my skill,..For soaking soores, a soueraigne salue could finde. 1593Queen Elizabeth Boeth. ii. metr. iv. 30 [He] Shuns soking Sandes. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 224 Thy Conceit is soaking, will draw in More then the common Blocks.
†b. transf. Of persons. Obs.
1565Cooper, Barathrum,..a soking or wasting queane. 1584Lodge Alarum B ij, They finde out..some olde soaking vndermining Solicitour.
†c. soaking doe, ‘a barren doe, that going over the year is fat, when other does have fawns’ (Halliwell). Obs.
1588Presentment in Essex Rev. XV. (1906) 64 A soaken doe found hurt cominge out of the Purliewe.
2.
†a. Of a fire: Slow. Obs. (Cf. soak v. 6.)
c1450Douce MS. 55 fol. 129 Rost hym with sokynne fyre. c1467Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 67 Rost hym long with a soking fyere. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. (1660) 73 Then spit it and rost it by a soaking fire.
b. Printing. (See quots.)
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋5 A long or a Soaking or Easie Pull, is when the Form feels the force of the Spindle by degrees, till the Bar comes almost to the hither Cheek of the Press. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 128 Soaking pull, a long and easy pull over of the bar⁓handle of a printing press.
3. Percolating; sinking in; flowing slowly.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist., Euseb. i. iii, A certain soaking slumber of drunkenness. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche xx. lx, The heav'nly Dew Into Earth's thirsty mouth drops soaking Joy. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. iii. 102 To the East of Cape Roman..you meet only a soaking faint Current.
4. Drenching; wetting thoroughly.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 59 A good soakinge shower aboute the latter ende of September. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 193 Rub Moss off your Trees after a soaking Rain. 1753Scots Mag. XV. 76/2 Though drench'd his..hide with soaking rain. 1806J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life ii. xiv, A soaking torrent of rain. 1894Hall Caine Manxman v. vi, The rain was coming down in a soaking drizzle.
transf.1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting i. 11 The..cause of many a miserable soaking night to myself and others.
5. Saturated, drenched.
1864Abp. Tait in Reminisc. Lady Wake (1909) xxiv. 280 It was voted dangerous for any one to fall asleep in our soaking state. 1879R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 260, I..stripped off my soaking clothes. 1882‘Ouida’ Maremma I. 181 When the suns of August sucked up the venom from the emerald soaking swamp.
6. quasi-adv., in soaking wet.
1847C. Brontë J. Eyre v, All underfoot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting iii. 94 Three miserable soaking-wet days. |