slottingn.1
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > scoring meat
slotting1647
1647 Extr. Burgh Recs. Stirling 193 The actis and ordinances..anent slotting and spuilyeing of flesche.
2.
a. The action of making or cutting a slot or slots.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > making slots
slotting1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 689 There is no slotting, as in the common harrow, but the bulls and bars are simply crossed.
1879 Organ Voicing 20 When fairly voiced, the slotting may be commenced.
b. attributive, as slotting auger, slotting bar, slotting machine(ry).
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1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 234/1 Improvements in slotting machines.
1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 234/1 The fourth part is an improvement in the slotting bar.
1863 Q. Rev. 114 298 The planing, slotting, or turning machinery of these factories.
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.P 17 The ordinary turning, planing, and slotting tools.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 185/1 The Slotting Auger cuts laterally.
3. Coal Mining. (See quot. 1883.)
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 227 Slottings, coal cut away in the process of holing.
4.
a. The action of threading through a hole or slot. Also, ornamentation with threading.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > other
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fal-lal1703
falbala1705
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jewelling1718
weeper1724
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chiffons1765
foliage-trimming1818
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piping1825
manchette1835
patte1835
streamer1838
waterfall1841
paillette1843
brandenburgs1873
motif1882
patch1884
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jockey1896
strapping1898
steel1899
sparklet1902
slotting1923
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > trimming > inserting
inletting1904
slotting1923
1923 Daily Mail 18 June 1 Filet lace and hem stitching, finished ribbon slotting at low waist line.
b. The action or condition of fitting in a slot (slot n.2 6). Also attributive.
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society > communication > broadcasting > [noun] > time of broadcast or place in schedule
fixed point1778
time1924
airtime1931
spot1937
adjacency1947
prime time1947
airdate1950
space1956
slotting1959
airspace1960
time slot1962
slot1964
strand1979
1959 Washington Post 26 Dec. a19/1 Ratings have climbed despite the show's unhappy time slotting between ‘Laramie’ and ‘Bronco’, without a big show preceding it on the network.
1968 Listener 4 Jan. 27/1 The television slotting system..separates programmes into categories... But slotting also creates a climate in which surprise is unwelcome... Slotted into one of the arts programme times the Beatles' film would hardly have raised a whisper.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
slottingn.2
rare.
= slot n.3 1.
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the world > animals > animals hunted > trail > [noun]
feutea1375
treadc1400
fewea1425
racka1467
train1568
foiling1575
slot1575
trail1590
fuse1611
piste1696
spoor1823
sign1851
slotting1909
1909 B. Grohman Master of Game 262 All of which may lead his slotting to be mistaken for the tracks of a hind.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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