sharpingn.
/ˈʃɑːpɪŋ/ The action of sharp v.
1. = sharpening n. in various senses.
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the mind > emotion > intense emotion > [noun] > action of making intense
sharping1398
the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [noun] > sharpening
sharping1398
whetting1398
sharpening1580
wheta1628
the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [noun] > vividness or brightness > brightening
sharping1398
brighteninga1450
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > high pitch > increase of pitch > making sharp
sharping1654
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xix. xvii. 874 In olde tyme men vsed to sharpe this colour Minius wyth the blode of a certayne worme:..and for suche sharpyng that red was callyd Vermiculus.
a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS 71/499 Þei..Þat hedden tonges of scharpynge And [? read As] swerd þat kerueþ Mayle.
1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 33 Late the case be taken for a new lerning, and to the sharping of goode corages.
1575 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 256 For horse showing, sharping of irons, and ale, xjd.
1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick i. 7 The flatting and sharping of Notes.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. E2b This sort [chirtt] will wear a new Steel'd Pick off, in three or four times Sharping.
1895 N. Amer. Rev. July 11 When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it.
1956 Jakobson & Halle in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 348/1 Secondary tonality features (flatting and/or sharping).
2. The action of a sharper, swindling, roguery.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun]
defraudc1450
defraudationc1503
fraudingc1530
defrauding1548
cheateryc1555
cheatingc1555
versing1591
begeckc1600
sharking1602
shaving1606
rooking1635
defraudment1645
emunging1664
prowlerya1670
bilking1687
sharping1692
mace1742
fineering1765
swindling1769
highway robbery1777
macing1811
flat-catching1821
ramping1830
swindlery1833
rigging1846
diddlinga1849
suck-in1856
daylight robbery1863
cooking1873
bunco-steering1875
chousing1881
fiddling1884
verneukery1896
padding1900
verneukering1900
bobol1907
swizzle1913
ramp1915
swizz1915
chizzing1948
tweedling1975
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > action
bulling1532
cogging1570
cozening1576
coney-catching1591
fool-taking1592
gulling1600
bat-fowling1602
sharking1602
imposturing1618
mountebanking1672
shamming1677
sharping1692
fineering1765
overreachinga1774
pigeoning1808
flat-catching1821
thimble-shifting1834
thimblerigging1839
strawing1851
thimbling1857
fiddling1884
piking1884
ramping1891
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xxxiv. 33 Cheating and Sharping, one Half of the Year, and Starving, the Other.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lviii. 243 Sharping, and other infamous practices.
1870 W. R. Greg Polit. Probl. 275 Shameless jobbery, cruel swindling and sharping.
Compounds
† sharping-corn n. Obsolete an annual grant of corn formerly made to a blacksmith in return for sharpening farm implements. sharping-stone n. Scottish a whetstone.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > payments for other specific services
barber feec1380
alnage1418
school fee1512
pinlocka1525
warden-fee1531
wait fee1563
fullage1611
pipe-moneya1637
marriage money1674
sharping-corn1681
spy-money1713
crimpage1732
cooperage1755
stirrup money1757
stub-money1776
membership fee1860
society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > whetstone
whetstonec725
hone-stone1393
filourc1400
hone1440
rub1502
rubber1553
knife-stone1571
stone1578
oilstone1585
block1592
oil whetstone1601
greenstone1668
scythe-stone1688
water stone1703
sharping-stone1714
Scotch stone1766
honer1780
Turkey hone1794
polishing-slate1801
burr1816
Turkey stone1816
German hone1817
Arkansas1869
rag1877
rock1889
slipstone1927
1681 Rec. Baron Court Stitchill (S.H.S.) 89 15 sheaves of shairping corne.
1714 G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 254 2 sharping stones 3s.
1905 ‘H. Haliburton’ Excurs. i. 9 The Bruce stood aimlessly with his sharping-stone in one hand.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
sharpingadj.
/ˈʃɑːpɪŋ/ That acts as a sharper, fraudulent, swindling, cheating, knavish.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [adjective] > defrauding or swindling
cheatingc1555
sharking1608
shaving1611
rooking1631
sharping1691
black-legged1761
swindling1774
managed1810
cooked1849
bunco-steering1875
blue sky and hot air1905
blue skies1925
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [adjective] > swindling
coney-catching1594
mountebanking1602
skeldering1602
sharping1691
victimizing1834
piking1893
1691 J. Dryden King Arthur Prol. sig. A6v A sharping Sett.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Hedge-Tavern,..a Jilting, Sharping Tavern.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 47 A sharping attorney.
1829 W. Irving Chron. Conq. Granada I. xxvi. 237 All wandering minstrels, sharping pedlars,..and other camp trumpery..were drummed out of the gates of Alhama.
1880 W. Hooe (title) Sharping London,..a book for honest people.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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