1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 138. Be well ware, that thou breake not thy graffe, neyther in the clayenge, nor in the byndynge.
1822. Burrowes, Cycl., X. 287/2. Four hundred of the [sugar] plantations of St. Domingo have the necessary apparatus for claying.
1875. Agric. Holdings Act 38 & 39 Vict., c. 92 § 5. An improvement comprised in … clay-burning, claying of land, liming of land.
Comb. Claying-bar, a cylindrical bar of iron for driving clay into a blast-hole so as to prevent the percolation of water; claying-house, the house or place in which sugar is clayed.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 943. As this process lasts several weeks, the claying-house requires to have very considerable dimensions.
