vbl. sb. [f. WEIGHT v. + -ING1.]

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  1.  The action of the verb.

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1865.  Janet Hamilton, Poems, etc. (1870), 154.

        It’s England mak’s an’ sign’s the peace
  What nations tire o’ fechtin’;
Whan Europe’s balance gangs agee,
  She trims the scales for wechtin’.

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1905.  Westm. Gaz., 12 Jan., 3/1. A different system of weighting,… &c., may cause a diference of 1, 2 … per cent. in the index numbers.

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  b.  spec. The action or process of fraudulently adding weight to textiles (see WEIGHT v. 2 c).

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1904.  Tailor & Cutter, 4 Aug., 480/2. Woollen Draper’s Terms, Weighting: A process by which sulphate of zinc and other metals is absorbed in wool, and so adding weight.

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  2.  concr. Something used as a weight to press down, steady or balance.

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1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., 1464/1. Weighting. Blocks put on a flask to keep the cope down under the upward pressure of the body of iron poured into the mold.

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1907.  Westm. Gaz., 16 Feb., 13/1. Another evening frock … has weightings of jet and silver at the foot and about the décolletage.

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