vbl. sb.
1. The action of the vb. COLLAR in various senses; also attrib.
1692. Lond. Gaz., No. 2803/4. Some white in his Mane near the collaring Place.
1769. Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 293. Observations on Potting and Collaring.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple, x. I was quite bewildered with the shouting and swearing, pushing and scuffling, collaring and fighting.
1865. Cornh. Mag., Feb., 177. Her enterprises on Bishop’s shirts and handkerchiefs, gloves and stockings, new wristbanding and collaring, and darning, and clearstarching and ironing.
2. Mining. See quot., and cf. COLLAR sb. 14.
1851. Coal-trade Terms Northumbld. & Durham, 15. Collaring, a framing composed usually of pieces of cross timber, placed under the pump joints in a shaft, for the purpose of steadying and supporting the set.
