单词 | lipping |
释义 | lippingn.1 1. a. The action of lip v.1 in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > [noun] indentingc1386 indentment1672 indenture1672 indention1763 indentation1836 lipping1867 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > breaking or dashing > breaking lightly or lapping lapping1855 lipping1867 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lipping, making notches on the edge of a cutlass or sword. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Dec. 5/1 Soon the gentle lipping of the tide was replaced by the roar of white-crested waves. b. spec. in Pathology. ΚΠ 1894 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 June 1188/1 The lipping of the articular ends of the bones being characteristic. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 106 The presence of bony thickening and lipping about the joints. 1899 E. Blake Study of Hand (ed. 2) 28 Attacks of chondritis with fibrous degeneration, followed by bulging of the cartilage, known as ‘lipping’, due to muscular traction, on the opposing articular surfaces. 2. A strip of wood or the like fixed to the edge of a board, door, table-top, etc.; the act of fixing such a strip. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > specific pieces of woodwork top-rail1679 sea-brace1776 angle bead1799 staff1812 angle-staff1825 warping1833 lipping1963 1963 Gloss. Terms Timber (B.S.I.) 62 Lipping, a strip of wood or other material applied to the edge of a flush door, table top, etc. 1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 53 Lipping, fixing a strip of solid wood to the edge of a board, usually by means of a tongue and groove. 1971 Timber Trades Jrnl. 14 Aug. 58/2 The pre-glued edging can be either conventional plastics or wood lippings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2018). lippingn.2 (See quot. 1805.) ΚΠ 1805 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 4) vii. 95 Lipping is cutting the slope-face of the cion so as to leave a rib down in the middle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2018). lippingadj. That lips, in senses of the verb. ΚΠ 1843 E. Jones Stud. Sensation & Event 29 She rose against the lipping wind. 1844 W. Miller in D. Robertson Songs for Nursery 46/1 Hairst time's like a lippin' cup. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xix. 245 The first little rivulet, that trickled forth from their lipping fulness, would be the signal of their destruction. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.11867n.21805adj.1843 |
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