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staging, vbl. n.|ˈsteɪdʒɪŋ|
Also 9 stageing.
[f. stage n. and v. + -ing1.]
1. concr.
a. A temporary platform or structure of posts and boards for support; scaffolding. Also, spec. shelving for plants in a greenhouse.
1323–4Ely Sacr. Rolls (1907) II. 47 In xxiij arboribus de sapin empt. pro stagyngg 2l. 8s. 0d. 1390–1in W. Hudson Leet Jurisd. Norwich (Selden Soc.) 70 Rogerus Smyth depredavit c latthis de Herveo Skott et maremium et stagyngg murorum Civitatis. 1521Bury Wills (Camden) 122 For a beme and stagyng in y⊇ chyrche, vij s. 1835–6P. Barlow in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 87/1 A stageing is erected about seven feet above the deck. 1842Niles' Reg. LXIII. 169/2 Governor Metcalfe appeared upon a staging erected upon the capitol steps, and returned his thanks. 1883Law Rep. 11 Q.B. Div. 503 He supplied and put up the staging necessary to enable the outside of the vessel to be painted and repaired when in the dock. 1884Manch. Exam. 7 Oct. 5/1 At the mass meetings..two of the stagings gave way. 1886Bk. Garden Managem. 437 The great desideratum in the arrangement of staging of any kind, as far as the plants themselves are concerned, is to bring them as close to the light as possible. 1929Radio Times 8 Nov. 417/2 Chrysanthemums are now displaying..bloom under glass... Be careful not to spill water on the floor and staging. 1974Country Life 24 Jan. 150/2 Tulipa humilis and crocus..have been moved to staging in an airy, unheated greenhouse.
attrib.1535in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 453 Oon load of stagyng tymber. 1912Blackw. Mag. Sept. 354/2 The slow waters of the river, purring around the stays and staging-piles.
b. Arch. The stages of a buttress collectively.
1865Athenæum No. 1942. 57/3 Mediæval buttresses with their stagings.
2.
†a. The action of mounting a stage. Obs.
1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 39 If getting into the pulpit were a kind of staging, where nothing was to be considered, but how much the sermon takes, and how much star'd at.
b. The action, process, or art of putting a play on the stage; stage-setting.
1884Sat. Rev. 12 July 48 Twelfth Night..was as brilliant and well ordered a piece of staging. 1884Times (weekly ed.) 26 Sept. 6/1 The staging of a play is in itself a work of true art. 1901Skrine Life Sir W. W. Hunter xviii. 380 He did full justice to the staging [of ‘Faust’], which was then unsurpassed in London.
3. The business of running or managing stage-coaches; the action of travelling by stage-coach or by stages. Also attrib. (Chiefly Anglo-Indian and U.S.) Now rare.
1840Southern Lit. Messenger VI. 381/2 He does not follow the sea nor staging. 1850Ogilvie. 1854Househ. Words VIII. 367/2 A Dawk bungalow, or, as it is called officially, a staging bungalow. 1864Harper's Mag. Oct. 563/1 In an ancient adobe building,..Mr. Banning carried on his staging and teaming operations. 1894Outing XXIV. 399/2 Stagin' in them days, stranger, was stagin'. 1896Sir R. Temple Story My Life I. 29 Halting in the hot hours of daylight, generally in the solitude of staging rest⁓houses. 1912Chamb. Jrnl. Christmas No. 18/2, I jolted along in an old dak ghari (staging-carriage).
4. Astronautics. The arrangement of stages (stage n. 12 b) in a rocket; the separation and falling away of a stage from the remainder of the rocket when its propellant is spent.
1959H. S. Seifert Space Technol. xix. 19 In the staging operation the uncoupling of the two sections must take place smoothly so as not to put asymmetric loads on the continuing part of the structure. 1962D. Slayton in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 26 About thirty seconds after staging..the Atlas goes over into about a 14° pitch to get you headed into the precise angle for a good orbit. 1966H. O. Ruppe Introd. Astronaut. I. iii. 88 In conventional ‘tandem staging’ or ‘series staging’ each complete stage burns and separates before the next stage ignites. In parallel staging, components (engines, tanks, or stages) operate simultaneously.
5. Used attrib. to designate a stopping-place or assembly-point at a place intermediate between a base and a destination, as staging-area, staging-point, staging-post. orig. and chiefly Mil.
1945Amer. Speech XX. 259 Other terms are used metaphorically: some which are particularly adaptable are..ration allowance, staging area. 1971Fremdsprachen XV. 45 The states in the U.S. Coastal Zone contain most of the nation's population and industry, the gateway for maritime trade of about $40 billion, the staging area for the $500 million fish and crustacean industry. 1976New Yorker 24 May 29/1 Almost all the American athletes will be ‘processed’ at a staging area on the premises of the State University College at Plattsburgh.
1955Times 25 Aug. 9/2 Egypt is the vital staging point in air routes for the reinforcing of the Far East. 1969H. Horwood Newfoundland i. 2 The point that I had reached had once been a meeting place for Indian bands, a summer staging⁓point.
1952Times 21 Aug. 5/6 The American base in England is one of a number of strategic strongholds developed by the S.S.A.F. since the war. There are air bases, staging posts, and other installations in widely scattered places all over the world. 1959Listener 1 Jan. 8/1 Explorers have met and drunk tea at the South Pole, as if it were just any other staging post. 1970H. Trevelyan Middle East in Revolution 154 All that was left at the revolution was an R.A.F. staging post and technicians helping to train the Iraqi Forces. |