webbingn.
/ˈwɛbɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɛbɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving
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a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 452 Purveier coveint de une lame [glossed] a webbyng szaly [a1333 BL Add. the weving slay].
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 519 Webbynge, of wullyne clothe, lanificium... Webbynge, of lynnyne, linificium.
1463–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1463 §17. m. 4 Withoute dyversite in webbyng, fullyng, knottyng and burlyng.
1483 Vulgaria abs Terencio (T. Rood & T. Hunte) sig. niij Wyth woll and webbynge wemen were wont to gete their lyuynge.
1558 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1897) 12 439 Which yerely fee ferme was paid so long as webbyng in the said citie was used.
a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Ee.ii In webbing wasting tyme to eas thereby myne aged care [L. tela curas solabar anilis].
1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee Ep. to Rdr. sig. b2 Woman, get you home, and follow your own businesses of spinning and webbing.
2. † a. Woven fabric. Also occasionally in plural in same sense. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven
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1739 Daily Post 17 Apr. A Somersetshire Webb-Weaver brought an Action against a Dyer in Southwark for 3 l. 10 s. due to him for five Groce of Webbing.
1754 R. Pococke Trav. through Eng. (1889) II. 15 Welch Webbings..a thick sort of flannel, of which the Soldiers' clothing is chiefly made.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 84/1 Webbing made of reed and used in substitution of fir-lathing.
b. Closely woven material in the form of a strong wide band, used esp. by upholsterers; (also) a band of this type. Also figurative.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > band of
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1761 Public Advertiser 28 Nov. Girth Webbing and other Materials.
1783 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1025/2 Somewhat resembling the ribbon-like webbing of the Aurora-Borealis.
1793 T. Sheraton App. to Cabinet-maker & Upholsterer's Drawing-bk. 25 Some use a kind of coloured strong webbing, without the tambour, which makes it..less liable to injury, though it does not look so neat.
1796 Repertory of Arts 6 76 A chain, webbing, strap or line, is applied on the ledge on the face of the wheel.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. i. iii. 316 A box footstool... The top is formed of an outside frame, on which is stretched strong webbing, for the purpose of supporting the stuffing above.
1883 Daily News 10 Sept. 2/6 In elastic webbings there is no improvement in the trade for gussets [of boots].
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 154 Webbing, a term for the wider tapes of a printing machine; also applied to the girthing used for running in and out the carriage of hand-presses.
1936 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 109/2 Spring-upholstered furniture often can be permanently repaired by replacing the old webbing with flexible, ribbon steel.
1989 Motor Transport 8 Feb. 10/1 Operators are being warned against using ratchet-type load restraint assemblies made from webbing that will not take the loading claimed by the suppliers.
2011 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 24 Sept. l6 The Risom Arm Lounge Chair..features a maple or walnut hardwood frame and natural cotton webbing.
c. As a mass noun: a harness worn over the shoulders with an attached belt and pouches used to carry equipment, ammunition, etc., as part of a soldier's combat uniform.
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1915 Illustr. London News 16 Oct. 490/1 The man on his left was fooling with his webbing. Private 43237 was feeling that the idiot ought to know he hated his doing that.
1946 Army Life (U.S. War Dept.) Apr. 15/2 There were special helmets, special webbing, special shoes and boots,..and dozens of other issues to adapt our troops to the new methods of combat.
1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) ix. 346 They wore grenades and webbing filled with extra magazines, and their clothes were worn and dusty.
2011 Leader Messenger (Adelaide) (Nexis) 8 June 4 After being kitted out with a 30kg backpack, 5kg of webbing and a F88 Austeyr rifle, I feel ready to topple over, rather than go into battle.
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a. A webbed condition of the fingers, toes, or other parts of the body; = palmation n.2 Also: the material, typically a fold of skin, which connects parts of the body in this way. Cf. webbed adj. 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > webbing of digits
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > web-foot > condition of being webbed
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1782 J. Aitken Elements Theory & Pract. Physic & Surg. II. 442 Webbing..is native or accidental, and admits sometimes of rectification from the knife.
1872 J. E. Erichsen Sci. & Art Surg. (ed. 6) II. liv. 298 Webbing of the Fingers is occasionally met with.
1888 Med. Press 18 July 59/2 In the feet..the webbing is less thick and complete than in the hands, the terminal phalanges being separate from each other.
1894 Cent. Mag. Jan. 353/2 As the palmation, or webbing [of the larger moose's antlers], is not so wide as in the first variety, the points are longer.
1942 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 204 641 Dr. Lawson Wilkins..showed one of the authors a patient who..has both coarctation of the aorta and webbing of the neck. He called the authors' attention to ‘Turner's syndrome’.
1985 Cambr. Encycl. Life Sci. viii. 252/1 There is even a flying frog, with expanded webbing between the toes of its feet.
2008 N. Shubin Your Inner Fish (2009) ii. 35 (caption) The fins of most fish—for example, a zebrafish—have large amounts of fin webbing and many bones at the base.
b. The part of a baseball glove that joins together the pockets intended for the fingers; esp. the part between the pockets for the thumb and forefinger. Also occasionally used with reference to similar gloves in other sports.
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1913 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 17 Aug. (Courier-Jrnl. Junior Suppl.) The leather webbing between the fingers was patented, as was the method of lacing the catcher's mitt.
1969 R. Angell in New Yorker 1 Nov. 157/1 Agee held on to the ball..and carried it all the way back to the infield like a trophy, still stuck in the topmost webbing of his glove.
1996 Ice Hockey News Rev. 21 Dec. 23/1 It has been alleged..that some of the webbing on his catching mitt was just a little more than most of the others had.
2015 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 17 Sept. (Sports section) 1 A Twins' go-ahead rally was aided by..a line drive that ticked off the webbing of a fielder's glove.
4. Material spun by a spider or caterpillar to form a web; material resembling this; the web formed in this way.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web > material for
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1836 Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 1 209 The outer layers of webbing are in every instance deeply coloured by the soil.
1883 G. MacDonald Princess & Curdie xxvii. 211 A huge spider,..which, having made an excellent supper, was full of webbing.
1914 Auk 31 51 The cavity behind the bark is nearly filled by the nest,—a mass of sticks.., caterpillar webbing, dry grass, cocoons and the down of cinnamon ferns.
1982 Sci. News 122 87/2 The overall webbing of the communal spider home is massive.
2016 Examiner Newspaper (Nexis) 7 Feb. 44 When populations are large mites can create a mass of fine webbing, similar to a spider's web.
5. Strong cord, thongs, etc., forming a netted or woven surface tightly strung across a frame, esp. in certain products such as tennis rackets and snowshoes; a piece or example of this.
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1880 Harper's Bazar 30 Oct. 697/3 The rackets..are made with a frame of elastic wood, with a webbing, nicely wrought, of catgut.
1925 Boys' Life Jan. 13/3 I forgot to mention the webbing of the snowshoes. Get the closer webbing in preference to the wider type.
1972 Winnipeg Free Press 12 May 33/4 (advt.) ‘Indoor or outdoor’ rattan basket chair... Sturdy 30″ lightweight chair with rattan webbing and black wrought iron base.
1995 Ski Nov. 24/1 A flawless plastic-head lax stick with synthetic webbing.
2015 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 24 Jan. (Features section) 33 These snow shoes..originated from Canada and are made from a hardwood base with a rawhide webbing.
Compounds
attributive, with the sense ‘designating a strap of band made of webbing (sense 2b)’.
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1820 Lit. & Sci. Repository July 207 His rifle frock was blue and white chambray, close buckled with a webbing belt, and fringed with a bright oppossum colour.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Webbing tape, a kind of broad tape.
2001 Techn. Guide (YHA Adventure Shops) Summer 48/2 Simply strap the poles to the outside of your pack, or roll them in your sleeping mat, and compress the rest using the webbing straps.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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