toolingn.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > [noun] > collectively
tooling1673
instrumentation1872
1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 210 By such time as he and his are fitted with Clothing, Teething & Tooling, his money is gone.
2. The action of tool v.; workmanship performed with some special tool; spec.
a. The dressing of stone with a broad chisel; also, elaborate ornamental carving in stone or wood.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun]
tooling1815
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun]
entailc1300
sculpture1390
carving1531
engraving1552
statuary1563
engravery1566
insculption1599
scalpture1656
tomice1662
manusculpture1704
tooling1815
sculpturing1842
sculpting1876
mudding1892
machine sculpture1970
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 218 The larger sizes of chisels obtain the name of tools, the act of using them is called tooling, and the stone to which they have been applied is said to be tooled.
1828 T. De Quincey Elements Rhetoric in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 889/1 The fine tooling, and delicate tracery, of the cabinet artist.
1891 Edinb. Rev. July 110 The tooling of the Haram stones is peculiar, and is the same found on the later Carthaginian monuments.
b. Bookbinding. The impressing of ornamental designs upon the covers of books by means of heated tools or stamps; also applied to the designs so formed: either with gilding ( gold-tooling or gilt-tooling) or without it ( blind-tooling: blind adj. Compounds).
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > impressed designs
tooling1821
tool1881
1821 G. Ormerod Let. to J. G. Nichols May in Pearson's Catal. (1886) No. 60 I would not have any lettering or tooling on the back.
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. vi. 78 The charms of vellums, tall copies, and blind tooling.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Gold-tooling, ornaments impressed by the hot-tool upon gold-leaf laid on book-covers.
1893 Q. Rev. July 187 The tooling in gold introduced at this time..came originally from the East.
c. The process of designing and supplying the machine tools needed for a product or model; also concrete, these tools collectively.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making tools, equipment, or fastenings > [noun] > making or supplying with machine tools
tooling1939
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > collectively
tooling1963
1939 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 12/3 (advt.) Experience should include the setting up and tooling of automatic and turret lathes.
1940 Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 14/8 War plants emerge from the ‘tooling up’ phase into production.
1958 Times Rev. Industry June 57/2 A minimum of three-year development time is necessary..through all stages of design, prototypes, testing and tooling.
1963 Wall St. Jrnl. 1 Oct. Dayton Reliable Tool & Manufacturing Co...has switched 90% of its manufacturing to making tooling for turning out pull-open devices.
1967 L. B. Archer in G. Wills & R. Yearsley Handbk. Managem. Technol. 125 Should we begin to sell at a high price to recover our tooling costs quickly?
1977 G. V. Higgins Dreamland xii. 150 I had earned commissions in hand, from cleaning out Vulcan's obsolete tooling.
Compounds
tooling-gouge n.
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1873 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting (1875) 56 The stems and branches look very well when simply rounded and tooled with the V-tool, or tooling-gouge, which is the smallest sized round gouge.
tooling-iron n.
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1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 238 Chatterton's compound should be warmed, and a small quantity put on the copper and joint, and properly tooled over, so as to cover the joint equally. Before applying the tooling-iron it should be well wiped.
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