[f. CRAZE v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the verb CRAZE; crushing, bruising, cracking, etc. (lit. and fig.); spec. of tin ore, and of pottery (CRAZE v. 2, 3 b).
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 58 b. To kepe the rule of holy obedyence, hole and sounde, without crasynge or brusynge.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies (1662), 195. In Stamping, Drying, Crazing and Melting.
1832. G. R. Porter, Porcelain & Gl., 30. Crazing is a technical phrase, used to denote the cracking of the glaze.
† 2. concr. A crack, cleft, chink. Obs.
1388. Wyclif, Obad. i. 3. Dwellynge in crasyngis of stoonys.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. cxxiii. (Tollem. MS.). Chynes and crasyng of schippes beþ stoppid þer wiþ.
3. Crazing-mill, a mill for crushing tin ore.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 12 a. From the stamping mill it [the Tin] passeth to the crazing mil, which … bruseth the same to a fine sand.
1884. R. Hunt, British Mining, 65. The tin miner … took them … to the ‘crazing-mill.’
