vbl. sb. [f. WEIGHT v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the verb.
1865. Janet Hamilton, Poems, etc. (1870), 154.
Its England maks an signs the peace | |
What nations tire o fechtin; | |
Whan Europes balance gangs agee, | |
She trims the scales for wechtin. |
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.
b. spec. The action or process of fraudulently adding weight to textiles (see WEIGHT v. 2 c).
1904. Tailor & Cutter, 4 Aug., 480/2. Woollen Drapers Terms, Weighting: A process by which sulphate of zinc and other metals is absorbed in wool, and so adding weight.
2. concr. Something used as a weight to press down, steady or balance.
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.
1907. Westm. Gaz., 16 Feb., 13/1. Another evening frock has weightings of jet and silver at the foot and about the décolletage.