pieingn.1
/ˈpʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpaɪɪŋ/ 1. Chiefly English regional (eastern). The act of putting potatoes or other root crops into a pit and covering them with straw or earth. Cf. pie v.3 1. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > pitting or clamping
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1794 W. Amos Theory & Pract. Drill-Husb. iii. 111 (list of tasks in cultivating potatoes) To taking up, leading, pying, &c.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 200 Ploughing and picking, and pyeing contract.
1812 H. E. Strickland Gen. View Agric. East-Riding Yorks. vii. 155 Preservation..is generally effected by what is here called ‘Pyeing’.
1906 Jrnl. Board Agric. 13 19 Rotting may be checked by dusting the tubers freely with quicklime before pieing.
1957 T. K. Warley & K. A. Ingersent Use of Labour Farm-scale Veg. Production xxiii. 137 Where dumper models are used for leaving the carrots in heaps for pieing the dumping time is clearly peculiar to that method.
2. Originally and chiefly U.S. The act or practice of throwing a (custard) pie at a person, esp. an authority figure.
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1975 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 18 Apr. 1/6 The sticky pie caught the governor on the right side of the face... Scates insisted he was not part of a group that puts out ‘contracts’ on people and pays fees for ‘pieing’.
1977 Bandwagon (Howland, Ohio) 9 Nov. 2/5 The line was written two weeks before the pieing incident at the opening ceremony.
1986 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 17 Oct. 9/1 I hit a teacher in the face with a banana cream pie... ‘Pieing’ was all the rage in the mid-'70s.
2003 New Statesman (Nexis) 30 June ‘Pieing’ is the preferred method of attack by anarchists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pieingn.2
/ˈpʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpaɪɪŋ/ Printing.
The action of pie v.4
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1852 Daily Ohio Statesman 13 Dec. Our paper is delayed this evening by the pieing of our Second page.
1875 Manufacturer & Builder Oct. 217/3 A mechanical record of perfect accuracy in which the pieing of a subscriber's name is impossible.
1889 Daily News 17 June 7 (advt.) The..delay..in printing offices, caused by what is technically called ‘pyeing’.
1956 Shakespeare Q. 7 441 If original Shakespeare quartos do not afford instances of standing type..here in any case is evidence on pieing and type-accidents.
1980 D. Lee Esther's Town 29 The pieing of type, as printers referred to scrambled messes, apparently had a long and exasperating history in the Vindicator shop.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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