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单词 mossing
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mossingn.

Brit. /ˈmɒsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɔsɪŋ/, /ˈmɑsɪŋ/
Forms: late Middle English moseying, 1500s mosing, 1600s– mossing; also Scottish 1800s– mossin'.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moss v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < moss v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of moss v. (in various senses).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > picking or gathering other things
wool-gathering1581
mossing1700
acorning1818
cocksfooting1896
turpentining1910
wildcraft1924
1478 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) xv. 234 Moseying and poyntynge.
1591 Churchwardens' Accts. Minchinhampton in Archaeologia (1853) 35 436 To William Webbe, the tyler, upon a bargin for mosing and tiling and pynting of the church house and pentises, vij s.
1700 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1885) IV. 231 Sam. Stocks came a mossing.
1845 Stat. Acc. XIII. 75 For mossing, men receive 1s. 6d., and women, 9d. per day, without victuals.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvii. 355 All hands..are out ‘mossing’. This mossing..is a frightfully wintry operation. The mixed turf of willows, heaths, grasses, and moss, is frozen solid... I have some eight sledge-loads more to collect before our little home can be called windproof.
1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 329 This mossing process for renewing the bark.
1892 J. Smith Home-spun Rhymes 151 Till mossin' time again cam' soon.
1959 People's Jrnl. 1 Aug. (Aberdeen ed.) 11/2 It's been a gran' 'eer for mossin' tho', an' some o' the mair forcey chiels hid hame their first cuttin' afore the hiner-en' o' June.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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