puttingn.1
/ˈpʊtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpʊdɪŋ/ (in sense 2 also British, U.S.)Scottish English /ˈpʌtɪŋ/ a. Instigation, incitement; urging, prompting; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation
puttingOE
sleatinga1122
eggingc1200
pricking?c1225
enticement1303
movinga1382
eggmentc1386
stirring1399
instinct1412
instigationc1422
motiona1425
provocationa1425
coyingc1440
ertingc1440
tollingc1440
artation1441
incitation1477
instinction1490
inhortationc1503
stimulation1526
abetment1533
onsetting1541
provokement?1545
incitament1579
stirring?c1580
irritation1589
incitement1594
spurring1611
to give foment to1613
fomenting1615
prompturea1616
proritation1615
urgea1618
exstimulation1626
fomentation1633
instinctment1661
spurning1672
impulsing1885
OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) l. 275 Hation [þa ealdras] þæt þurh deofles putunge [L. instinctu diaboli] wæs anbelæd, and lufian þæt þurh godes godnysse gesceapon wæs.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxxv. 12 The hand of the synful, that is, the puttynge of the fende, stire me not till syn.
1599 H. Holland in R. Greenham Wks. 2 He thought all afflictions to be puttings of him to God from slothfulnes.
a1658 J. Durham Clavis Cantici (1668) 67 An actual putting at him (so to speak) and making use of him by faith.
b. literal. The action of pushing, shoving, thrusting, etc. Obsolete.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 92v Whanne þe bottom of þe stomake is a-rerid, ayer þat is in þe middel passiþ out by strengþe of puttinge [L. expulsionis] of þe longe & metiþ wiþ oþir aier.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 8774 Whan alle þe had put & þrist,..& left þer puttyng [a1450 Lamb. pottyng] manyon, ȝit stired þei not þe lest ston.
?a1425 (a1325) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Digby) (1887) 4313 Puttynge [c1325 Calig. Þer was pultinge & ssouinge & stroc monyon].
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 418 Puttynge, or schowynge, pulsus.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xii. 5 I, lord..sett noght by thaire stirynge, na mare than a geaunte dos at the puttynge of a waik man.
c. Exhalation. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission
deliverancea1398
puttinga1398
voidinga1425
effusionc1477
vent?1507
evaporation1555
delivery1588
extramission1613
extromission1615
ejaculation1625
emissiona1626
discharge1653
disclusion1656
voidance1672
emitting1693
spout1771
evolution1783
emanation1822
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 87 Þe pacient trauaileþ lich moch in drawinge and puttinge of breþ [L. in..expirando].
2. Esp. in the Highland Games: the action or sport of throwing a large stone or other heavy object from the shoulder. See put v. 4.shot-putting: see the first element.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > throwing weight, shot, or ball
putc1300
puttingc1300
shot put1887
shot-putting1894
weight-putting1900
weight throwing1901
softball throw1930
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1042 Hauelok stod and lokede þer-til; And of puttingge he was ful wil.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) i. 763 (MED) In that same place were a-sayde iche oon As weel in wrestlyng as puttyng at the stoon.
c1550 Clariodus (1830) i. 1408 The king..causit them to gone To pastyme, and to putting of the stone.
c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 238 Thair was gret bonespellis..betuix the Scottismen and the Inglismen..alsweill with the croce bow, putting of the stane [etc.].
1659 in W. Cramond Church of Alves (1900) 36 Some lads in Monaghtie censured for profaning the Lord's Day by putting at the stone.
a1709 J. Fraser Chrons. Frasers (1905) 165 With manly exercises of arching, football, putting of the stone [etc.].
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe i. 46 There is wrestling and putting of weights and dancing on holidays.
1905 S. Crowther & A. B. Ruhl Rowing & Track Athletics x. 380 The putting of the shot or throwing of the hammer looks like a mere feat of brute strength.
1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird xvi. 246 The putting of the sixteen-pound ball and the flinging of the fifty-six pound weight.
1979 D. Cooke I saw World End 97 The putting of the shot is followed immediately by the long-jump: the ‘shot’..is hurled twenty-four yards by Brünnhilde.
3. The action of placing, laying, setting, etc. See put v. 11, 30a.
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a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 97 (MED) Ne traueile not in deueyn þe sike man neiþir wiþ medicyns corosiuis, ne wiþ kuttynge, ne with puttynge [v.r. puttynges; L. infusione] into þe woundis greete tentis.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 418 Puttynge, or leyynge, posicio, collocacio.
a1500 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Wellcome) f. 31 (MED) Vnderstond then þat wryeng is all oon in þe ioyntours and pittyng of bone out of his stede.
1535–6 in D. H. Fleming Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1921) II. 285/2 The..violent putting of handis on umquhile William Cumming.
c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 122 For the putting of thais two erles in vairde.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Supposement, a supponing, or putting of a thing vnder another.
1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) v. 4 The putting of a little water into a Pumpe makes way to the drawing out of a great deale more.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 338 The time of putting of your Spirits into your Cyder.
1797 R. Tyler Algerine Captive I. vii. 70 The putting of a paper fool's cap on one, and ordering another under my great chair, only excited mirth in the school.
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. vi. 109 We..were earnest only in the putting of cakes.
1903 H. James Ambassadors ix. xxiii. 314 The Parisian place, the feverish hour, the putting before her of a hundred francs' worth of food and drink, which they'll scarcely touch.
1966 D. Sutherland Against Wind i. iv. 73 After the chesting—the putting of the body in the coffin—the funeral became an entirely male affair.
4. In various gen. and figurative senses. See put v. 12, 14, 13 15 – 19.
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1449 Rolls of Parl. V. 150/1 At any tyme meane betwix the puttyng in execution of any suche Licence and the saide Juggement given.
1586 Gen. Supplication made to Parl. in A. Peel Seconde Parte Reg. II. (1915) 86 The so easie putting to silence of the preachers of Gods Word.
c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 87 With the image of his puttinge to death.
1613 Sir T. Lake in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 149 At their first putting into the world.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 5 Nov. (1976) IX. 351 An argument to insinuate the putting of the Admiralty into commission.
1705 Eng. Euclide 36 Jointly with the drawing of a strait line he [sc. Euclide] does also postulate the putting of a point, or points at pleasure.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 464 The first words being general, the putting afterwards of a particular case will make no difference.
1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 32 It is by this act of putting that there is constituted the very intelligible..idea.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage c. 532 That would be so horrible that he wanted to delay as long as possible the putting of him to the test.
1988 Paragraph 11 229 The putting into crisis of established models of writing locates practice as a value.
2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. xii. 469 Simulation is essentially the putting of numbers into the model and deriving the numerical end-results of letting the model run on a computer.
5. Nautical. The action of setting out, proceeding, or following a course (to sea, into harbour, etc.). Also figurative.
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1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. D3v This is euen at the first putting into harbour, to cast away the shyp.
1665 G. Swinnock Wks. viii. 684 Death is..the wicked mans shipwrack which swalloweth him up in an Ocean of wrath and torment, yet its the Saints putting into harbour, where he is received with the..richest welcom imaginable.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. iii. 328 The day of their putting to sea.
1838 E. A. Poe Narr. Arthur Gordon Pym ii. 21 A day or two before her [sc. the brig's] putting to sea, my father was to receive a note.
1925 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn 222 The handling we received..did not necessitate our putting into Port Stanley for repairs.
2005 BBC Monitoring Internat. Rep. (Nexis) 11 June Another officer..organized the unauthorized putting to sea with six naval cadets.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > [noun] > sprouting or germination
shutea1300
springinga1387
bearinga1398
germination?1440
springing1531
sprouting1547
blading1548
shoot1572
sprout1586
spring1597
putting1623
eruption1626
spindling1626
germinating1644
spearing1707
spiring1733
flushing1810
plantulation1819
germing1832
germinance1841
stooling1854
coming up1908
1623 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden (ed. 2) vii. 20 The growth of the Tree, couering of wounds, putting of buds.
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a1672 F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 158 Most games are wun by putting & seeing, and seldome any come to bee up by setting downe the single ones that are wun by tricks without putting.
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xvi. 132 Sometimes they play without putting, and then the Winner is he that wins most tricks.
8. Coal Mining. The action of pushing or propelling trams or barrows of coal. See put v. 10. Now rare.
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1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 23 This rail plate is well adapted to..hurrying and putting by horses.
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 150 The more the actual present workings are hampered by lowness and want of room, the higher will be the expenses of putting, &c.
1894 Times 11 Oct. 4/6 From putting, the lad, now recognized as a full-grown and properly-trained miner, passes to hewing.
1910 Times 9 Apr. 6/4 There is a clerical error in not having eight hours instead of 7¾ hours..for the hewing and putting shift.
Compounds
C1. With adverbs, in nouns of action corresponding to the verb with adverbs in specialized senses at put v. Phrasal verbs 1. (Also with prepositions with object implied functioning as adverbs, as putting between n., putting from n. at Compounds 1a).
a. † putting between n. Obsolete† putting from n. Obsolete
putting away n.
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) 1 Pet. iii. 21 The puttinge awey [L. depositio] of flesch of filthis.
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 350 (MED) In al her goostly exercisis, whanne sche [sc. the soul] vside praier & oþire goostly menys, wolde I not ȝeue her liȝt in puttynge awey siche derknes?
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. iiv Yf you fynde..that the puttyng awaye of that law, be better..for this land without the minisshement of the fayth in the same.
a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 78, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Bot this Herald wes wincust & slane be Wilȝem..for the putting awa and mutulatioun of his sister.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 68 The bairneis..maid some speitche concernyng the putting away of the mes.
1683 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 84 To aprehend some persons upon suspition of putting away of bad money.
1892 Temple Bar Dec. 580 Tired and heated with final packings and puttings away.
1931 R. R. Marett in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 419 One must not make too much of the occasional cases of..senicide, namely, the putting away of the old.
1997 Guardian (Nexis) 3 Apr. t9 The School Bag signifies the putting away of childish things.
putting back n.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 259/2 Puttyng backe, repulce.
1670 J. Meikle Old Session Bk. 198 The removing and putting back of the loft is obeied an done.
?1794 J. Dale Narr. Loss of Winterton 44 Without ever inquiring in to the reason of our putting back, or with what difficulties we had met.
1845 Times 19 Mar. 6/2 Some petty saving which it is proposed to make by this putting back of the western world.
1998 Salmon, Trout & Sea-trout Feb. 16/2 The putting back of a good springer caught on fly..rather defeats the object.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 12v In aungel is þre maner vertue..he knowith god aboue himsilf in merour of euerlastinge duringe wiþ [read wiþout] any puttinge bitwene [L. sine..interpositione].
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Interposement, a putting or setting betwene.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Intergettione, a putting betweene, an Interiection.
putting by n.
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1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 128 A putting by or precaution that we should not commit any of those faults.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 231 At euery putting by, mine honest Neighbors showted.
1892 Times 25 May 12/3 All..felt that by the putting by in the time of health they could provide for those who came after them.
1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Aug. e1 Start now, in the midst of the ‘putting by’ season, to stockpile the delicacies of romance and individuality.
putting down n.
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1449 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1837) VI. 71 (MED) For the putting downe and to set aside the saide ordinance, the King hath many tymes and ofte writen to the said Duchesse..to..sture hir..to the revocacion thereof.]
c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 109 (MED) Ydelnesse..may be cause of their puttyng downe from prosperite.
1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Kiv Concerninge ye cardenals puttige doune, I considre many thynges.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvii. 385 After this, the Presbyterians lately in England obtained the putting down of Episcopacy.
1791 T. Paine Common Sense (new ed.) 96 The setting up and putting down of kings and governments is God's peculiar prerogative.
1843 Knickerbocker 21 436 The putting down of pork for the winter.
1915 Scribner's Mag. June 756/1 The device for immediate and boisterous laughter, this putting down of the middle-man by the end-man.
1993 Times (Nexis) 5 Jan. To many of my generation who served in the Army in the second world war stonking meant the putting-down of an artillery or mortar concentration on a given target.
putting forth n.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun] > expulsion from
putting forth1589
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xvii. 24 Knowe þou riȝtwisnesses & þe domes of god and stond in þe lot of puttinge forþ [a1425 L.V. in the part of good purpos; L. in sorte propositionis] & of orisoun of þe heiȝeste god.
1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. xcv. 841 The serpent crepyth wyth preuy puttynges forthe of scales.
1545 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Court of Requests (1898) 81 They [sc. the tenants] were dryuen to take copies of the Abbot for feare of puttyng forthe.
1589 in Acts Privy Council (1898) XVII. 353 His putting furth of their Society without anie just cause should be noe prejudice unto him.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. lviii. 9 If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanitie. View more context for this quotation
1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) Spindling, a term which Gardiners use, to signify the first Appearance or putting forth of Flowers, Stems, or their running up in Length.
1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture ii. ii. 246 Their every putting forth has a lying character.
1987 Jrnl. Aesthetic Educ. 21 72 The playing becomes a kind of proformance, the putting forth of an order of events to augment the set.
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1599 R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. 78 With a certaine disdaine and putting-from with the hand.
putting in n.
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c1400 Prose Versions New Test.: 2 Tim. (Selwyn) (1904) i. 6 (MED) Y warne þe þat þou arere up aȝeyn þe grace of God þat is in þe by þe puttynge yn of myn honden.
1483 Rolls of Parl. VI. 249/1 After the retourne or puttyng in of any suche Offices.
1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 18 This putting in of the Sunday in sted of the Sabbat day.
1669 S. Pepys Diary 19 Feb. (1976) IX. 454 I did propose to him my putting in to serve in Parliament.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 232 Quartering..signifies the putting in of Quarters.
1867 J. Ruskin Time & Tide ix. 46 I write you my letter straightforward, and let you see all my scratchings out and puttings in.
1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse i. iii. 27 The gruff murmur, irregularly broken by the taking out of pipes and the putting in of pipes.
1992 J. Cartwright Rise & Fall of Little Voice i. 2 This better not cock up the putting in of my new phone tomorrow.
putting off n.
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1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Delay, a delay, a putting off.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xxii. 132 The ridge bones [are] hard & sinewy..for the more easie withstanding and putting off, of hurting and wrong.
1616 Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 248 The putting off of the arraignments spent much money.
1803 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1804) 7 229 Wilt thou never yet have done With puttings-off eternal?
1842 H. E. Manning Serm. x. 136 What a putting off of this lower life shall there be at that day!
1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 174 Everyone began to think of demob..and the putting off of uniform.
1991 M. Lawson Facing Conflict ii. 51 The first application of his principle is relational. The putting off involves ‘falsehood’.
putting out n.
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a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 8562 (MED) Þai salle be þare syker and certayne..to won ay þare, with-outen dout, And with-outen lettyng and putting out.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 288 (MED) He sent one of his childer þedur and warnyd hym, a [= on] payn of puttyng oute of bothe his een, to tell hym þe treuth.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum 238 Therwith commeth feauers,..crieng in sleepe, quaking of bodye, putting out and gnawing of the tongue.
1630 Earl of Manchester in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 271 The putting out of apprentices.
1662 G. Torriano New Fabrick Ital. Dialogues 113 in Piazza Universale (1666) Strange, what puttings in, and puttings out are here?
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vi. 112 The steamers in Calais Harbor..are at all times observable at Ramsgate.., from the first lighting of the fires to the putting out at sea.
1889 Cent. Mag. Oct. 835/2 The last column indicates the number of missed opportunities or ‘errors’. A player is accredited with an error for every chance he has failed to accept in a manner to result directly or indirectly in the putting out of an opponent.
1947 S. C. Adams in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 519 The younger generation are largely indifferent either as to the necessity of joining the church, or, if they are already members, as to the ‘putting out’ of the church.
1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ix. x. 381/1 Herding intermediate between pastoralism and intensive livestock husbandry is represented by the putting out of pigs to pannage, a prominent feature of the agricultural economy of medieval Europe.
2002 Daily Tel. 11 May a3/2 At St Andrew's she discovered sex in a big way and acquired a reputation for ‘putting out’.
putting to n.
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. iv. 14 Nyle thou dispise..the grace of God..that is ȝouun to thee by prophecie, with puttynge to [a1425 L.V. putting on; L. impositione] of hondis of prestis.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 88 Many men..mitigateþ þe fraudulence & lupacite of it [sc. cancer] wiþ a pece of skarlet & wiþ puttyng to [?c1425 Paris layenge to; L. appositione] of hennez flesh.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 47 Þe spondyle is a bone conteynynge þe bak..hauynge many puttynges to [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. additamentz; L. additamenta], ascendynge and descendynge.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 197 He strengthed hyt with þe puttynge to of hys seele.
1579 J. Loud in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. li. 388 At the first putting to of the fire.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 545/2 Putting-to is managed very differently, according to whether the horse is going in shafts or with a pole.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 187 The volunteers who had assisted at the ticklish business of putting to.
1998 Carriage Driving Oct.–Nov. (Books Suppl.) 3/3 Laying a sound foundation towards understanding the techniques of harnessing, rein handling and putting to etc.
putting together n.
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 417 Puttynge to-geder, yn onynge, continuacio. Puttynge to-geder, wythe-owt onynge, contiguacio.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Nn1 Hotchepot..metaphorically a comm[i]xtion or putting together of lands, for the equall diuision of them being so put together.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxii. 133 By Invention, or voluntary putting together of several simple Ideas in our own Minds.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §271 Every thing was ready in the yard for putting together.
1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth III. xii. 301 The words he could not recognise for the thoughts that filled his brain—the rapid putting together of events that was going on there.
1986 M. Hughes Dream Catcher v. 63 The next six months' work was like the putting together of such a giant jigsaw.
putting up n.
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1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §821 In the first putting up it cooleth in little portions.
1786 Daily Universal Reg. 23 Nov. 3/3 The dead amounted to a number sufficient to authorize the putting up of public prayers.
1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce 1082 Employed..in embroidering, mending, bleaching, dyeing,..putting-up, &c.
1909 Daily Chron. 16 June 1/2 It was the biggest fight he had ever undertaken, but he was going to win it..or if he did not win he was going to give the other side a rare ‘putting up’.
1996 Blueprint July–Aug. 25/2 Every site is a violent piece of excavation of the earth and it's a putting-up of something which also masks its own process of participation in the world.
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putting on n. (a) the action of putting something on; (b) attributive designating a person employed in placing something on something else (in manufacturing, etc.) (rare).
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1527 Edinb. Hammermen f. 121, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) For puttin on of ane mullor on the sylour.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 119 Lord Angelo..awakens mee With this vnwonted putting on . View more context for this quotation
1645 D. Featley Καταβάπτισται Κατάπτυστοι: Dippers Dipt 61 Baptisme is..the putting on of Christ.
1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) The putting on of the Rudder is call'd, Hanging of it.
1839 Guide to Trade, Printer 40 Putting-on Boys.
1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey i. 7 A putting on of the armour of light.
1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 443 After the hides, splits and buffings are softened they go to the ‘patcher’, whose business it is to patch up the pieces by the putting on of a patch with glue.
1968 Listener 31 Oct. 566/1 They acknowledged their debt to McLuhan and paraded his definition of modern myths—the putting on of an audience and its environment.
1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 8/1 Wooden roofs are now being substituted mostly in all cases and the putting on of them is generally superintended by practical joiners.
C2. † putting stick n. Obsolete rare = putter n.1 4; cf. poting stick n. 1.
putting road n. Coal Mining rare a road or track along which barrows of coal are propelled in a mine (see sense 8).
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1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 21 [The pit] has been stopped for some years, not because the ‘putting roads’ had become too far, or too heavy for the putters;..but because the seam had become utterly flooded with water.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > pressing or ironing > ironing or pressing implements
pressing iron1343
cold press1552
setting-stick?1578
putter1583
putting stick1583
poking-stick1592
pooter1596
poting stick1600
poker1604
goose1606
poking-iron?1606
iron1613
smoothing-iron1627
steel1638
box iron1640
smoothing-boxa1684
press iron1695
ironing board1721
sad iron1759
ironing blanket1774
ironing table1778
flat-iron1810
sleeve-board1826
ironer1833
Italian iron1833
press-board1849
ironing machine1851
goffering-iron1861
skirt-board1861
goffer1865
trouser press1880
ironing board cover1886
trouser presser1888
electric iron1890
press cloth1918
press-pad1924
tie press1926
steam-iron1951
pressing board1969
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F2v This instrument [must] be heated in the fire, the better to stiffen the ruffe... And if you woulde know the name of this goodly toole, forsooth the deuill hath giuen it to name a putter, or else a putting sticke.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
puttingn.2
/ˈpʌtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpədɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈpʌtɪŋ/ Golf (originally Scottish).
The action or art of striking the ball with a putter in order to get it into the hole. Recorded earliest in putting club n. at Compounds.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of play
putting1690
short game1858
approach1879
iron play1879
pitch1889
duffing1890
hook1890
loft1890
lofting1895
slicing1899
bunkering1909
socketing1911
shanking1924
foozling1927
Stableford1937
shotmaking1969
1690 in J. Grant Seafield Corr. (1912) 65 This is not that I doubt but ye made good use of your short putting club ther.
1776 in C. B. Clapcott Rules of Golf (1935) 29 Nor must any person whatever stand at the hole to point it out or to do any other thing to assist you in putting.
1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. I. 84 The art..of so proportioning the force and direction of the stroke, or putting as it is called, that the ball may with few strokes be driven into the hole.
1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 695/1 It is only by careful judgment that nicety in putting is arrived at.
1892 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 10 58 All golf..is divided into three parts—driving, iron play, and putting.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 6 July 4/2 It's a good job I'm on my putting to-day or I should have had a dreadful card.
1990 W. Sheed Ess. in Disguise iii. xvi. 189 Putting is like drinking tea with your pinkie raised, or more precisely, like threading a needle with a thread that bends at the last moment.
Compounds
putting cleek n. a cleek (cleek n. 1b) used in putting.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > types of club
play club1685
putting club1690
gentlemen's club1709
putter1783
spoon1790
iron1793
sand-iron1796
whip-club1808
cleek1829
driving putter1833
bunker-iron1857
driver1857
niblick1857
putting iron1857
baffing-spoon1858
mid-spoon1858
short spoon1858
sand-club1873
three-wood1875
long iron1877
driving cleek1881
mashie1881
putting cleek1881
track-iron1883
driving iron1887
lofting-iron1887
baffy1888
brassy1888
bulger1889
lofter1889
lofter1892
jigger1893
driving mashie1894
mid-iron1897
mashie-niblick1907
wood1915
pinsplitter1916
chipper1921
blaster1937
sand-wedge1937
wedge1937
1881 R. Forgan Golfer's Handbk. 13 The ‘Putting Cleek’..is employed on the putting-green, but is a very treacherous weapon.
1907 W. M. Butler Golfer's Man. 5 The marriage of different pairs of clubs has produced such implements as mashie-niblicks and putting-cleeks.
2006 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 5 Apr. i7 Take a little loft from that club, shorten the shaft, and bingo, the putting cleek.
putting club n. = putter n.4 1.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > types of club
play club1685
putting club1690
gentlemen's club1709
putter1783
spoon1790
iron1793
sand-iron1796
whip-club1808
cleek1829
driving putter1833
bunker-iron1857
driver1857
niblick1857
putting iron1857
baffing-spoon1858
mid-spoon1858
short spoon1858
sand-club1873
three-wood1875
long iron1877
driving cleek1881
mashie1881
putting cleek1881
track-iron1883
driving iron1887
lofting-iron1887
baffy1888
brassy1888
bulger1889
lofter1889
lofter1892
jigger1893
driving mashie1894
mid-iron1897
mashie-niblick1907
wood1915
pinsplitter1916
chipper1921
blaster1937
sand-wedge1937
wedge1937
1690Putting club [see main sense].
1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVI. 29 The angle, which the head makes with the shaft, is nearly the same with that of the putting clubs used at golf.
1874 Times 5 Oct. 11/3 There are clubs headed with iron instead of wood... Finally there are the putting clubs.
2001 Columbus (Ohio) Ledger-Enquirer (Nexis) 11 Apr. c1 Product includes professional putting green carpet, a putting cup, two Potty Putter balls and a putting club.
putting course n. = putting green n. (b).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > forms of golf > [noun] > putting green
putting green1805
putting course1897
1897 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. (Mag.) 2/4 Each player makes two circuits of the putting course.
1945 J. Betjeman New Bats in Old Belfries 28 Over the putting course rashes were seen Of pink and of yellow among the burnt green.
2006 Times (Nexis) 1 July 35 An award-winning park hosts life-size dinosaurs, creepy-crawlies, a safari and, somewhat anachronistically, a Jurassic putting course.
putting green n. (a) the smooth area of grass around the hole; (b) a miniature golf course.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > green
putting green1805
green1878
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > forms of golf > [noun] > putting green
putting green1805
putting course1897
1805 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Play The rabbit scrapes or holes on the putting-greens, near the play-holes.
1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) xvi. 312 In the construction of golf courses and putting greens expert guidance is necessary.
2000 You & your Wedding Mar.–Apr. (Honeymoon Destinations Suppl.) 56/3 Mashie golf course, putting green, freshwater pool, tennis, [etc.].
putting hole n. the hole into which the ball is putted.
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1900 Times Democrat (Lima, Ohio) 21 May 4/5 Within the circle, but not necessarily in the middle of it, place the putting hole.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 3 Nov. 3/1 [The jackdaws] left it, to visit the putting-hole of the clock-golf.
2006 Weekly Times (Australia) (Nexis) 26 Apr. 41 The tennis court also has a golf putting hole, netball hoops and volleyball nets.
putting iron n. a club with a metal head used for putting.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > types of club
play club1685
putting club1690
gentlemen's club1709
putter1783
spoon1790
iron1793
sand-iron1796
whip-club1808
cleek1829
driving putter1833
bunker-iron1857
driver1857
niblick1857
putting iron1857
baffing-spoon1858
mid-spoon1858
short spoon1858
sand-club1873
three-wood1875
long iron1877
driving cleek1881
mashie1881
putting cleek1881
track-iron1883
driving iron1887
lofting-iron1887
baffy1888
brassy1888
bulger1889
lofter1889
lofter1892
jigger1893
driving mashie1894
mid-iron1897
mashie-niblick1907
wood1915
pinsplitter1916
chipper1921
blaster1937
sand-wedge1937
wedge1937
1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 695/1 Should you be advised to substitute a putting-iron for the bonâ-fide tool, shun the advice, and stick to the putter.
1975 D. Langdon How to talk Golf 66 Putt, a stroke made on the green with a putter (putting iron).
2005 Edmonton (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 28 Aug. 33 Josh Hui, who at five years old was skilled with his putting iron.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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