Also (in sense 2) creesing. [f. CREASE v.2 and sb.2]
1. The action of the verb CREASE; production of creases or wrinkles; also quasi-concr. = CREASE sb.2
1665. Hooke, Microgr., 9. The reason of which creasing we shall next examine … the creasings or angular bendings … become the more perspicuous.
2. Arch. (See quots.) Cf. CREASE sb.2 3.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Builder, Tile-creasing, two rows of tiles fixed horizontally under the coping of a wall, for discharging rain-water.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., Creasing, a layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., II. iii. § 13. 700. Parapets … finished with double plaintile creesing.
3. attrib.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., s.v. Creaser, Creasing tools … may be set in the jaws of a creasing-swage. Ibid., Creasing Hammer, a narrow, rounded-edge hammer, used for making grooves in sheet-metal.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 197. Mackerel splitting and reaming or creasing knives.
