shimmingn.
1. Hoeing with a shim.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > hoeing > types of hoeing
horse-hoeing1731
scratch-hoeing1733
hoe-ploughing1770
shimming1792
listing1805
scratching1818
1792 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 3 33 The middle of August, repeated the shimming.
1840 C. Howard Farming at Ridgemont 140 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III This ‘shimming’ is..repeated when the beans have advanced to six inches in height.
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 557 Horse-hoeing, or what is locally called..‘shiming’.
2. U.S. The insertion of shims; also, a shim, or shims collectively.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > other metalworking processes
limation1617
matting1688
sheeting1776
blooming1812
steeling1816
ungraining1839
tarnishing1858
ironing1868
shimming1872
beating1875
siliconizing1880
shearing1881
inoxidizing1883
rustproofing1892
picking1895
rifting1903
Bayer process1910
autofrettage1919
prefinishing1935
panel beating1953
splatting1976
1872 W. S. Huntington Road-master's Assistant 78 In winter, when ballast is frozen so that track can not be surfaced by tamping, it is done by shimming.
1884 Car-Builder's Dict. (Cent. Dict.) Shimming has been used in fitting on car-wheels when the wheel-seat of the axle was a little too small.
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