vealingn.1
1. a-vealing: procuring veal.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > seeking or acquiring food > specific meat
a-vealing1664
1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 47 And up he starts, to go a stealing, Either a Mutt'ning, or a Vealing.
2. Conversion into veal.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun]
slaughtera1300
to make larder ofa1330
murdering?a1475
fall1575
butchering1609
ovicide1828
felicide1832
poultrycide1841
piscicide1847
vealing1847
kill1850
slaughterage1854
birdicide1862
apricide1864
insecticide1865
vulpicidism1865
vulpicide1873
serpenticide1882
tauricide1882
vaccicide1887
leporicide1914
culling1938
cull1958
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > rearing of calves
suckling1799
vealing1847
1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 394 It is equally suitable, whether the calf is intended for vealing or to be reared.
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† vealingn.2
Obsolete.
(See quot. 1688.)
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 86/2 Working, is to lay them on the Beam and with the Fleshing Knife and Vealing Knife, to scrape off the Lime and cleanse them from their Fleshyness.
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vealingn.3
Scottish. Mining.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > removal of water
unwatering1778
vealing1886
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 69 Vealing, or vouning, chesting; getting out water by means of veals.
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