vbl. sb. [f. FRAME v. + -ING1.] The action of FRAME v. in various senses. † 1. The action of making profit. Obs.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 176/2. Framynge or afframynge or wynnynge, lucrum, emolumentum.
2. The action, method, or process of constructing, making, or shaping anything whether material or immaterial; † also, hewing of timber (obs.). Also gerundial with omission of in.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 176/2. Framynge of tymbyr, dolatura.
a. 1569. Kingesmyll, Mans Est., ix. (1580), 45. There is a stone framyng, it shall be laied in Sion.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., III. iii.
Too well I know my rudeness, all unfit | |
To frame this curious Isle, whose framing yet | |
Was never throughly known to any humane wit. |
1697. Dampier, Voy., I. vii. 189. She [a Fire ship] was not well made, though Captain Bond had the framing and management of it.
1703. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 123. To pin the Frame of a Floor, or Frame of a Roof together, whilst it is framing.
1867. Smyth, Sailors Word-bk., Framing. The placing, scarphing, and bolting of the frame-timbers of a ship.
1883. Manch. Exam., 16 June, 4/7. The clause in dispute was of Lord Salisburys own framing.
3. Mining. See quot. and cf. framing-table.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 913/2. Framing. 2. (Mining.) An operation upon pounded or stamped ores by which they are sorted into grades of comparative weight and consequent richness.
4. concr. Framed work; a framework; a frame or set or system of frames.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 142. The Timber to make 3 Square of Framing.
1823. Scoresby, Jrnl. Whale Fishery, 455. The pressure was so strong, that the pannels of the captains state-room door were forced out of the framing.
1828. Tredgold, Elem. Princ. Carpentery, title-p., Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing.
1886. Pall Mall G., 22 July, 4/2. Walls of bamboo framing filled in with mud.
5. attrib., as framing-house, -timber; also framing-chisel, a heavy chisel for making mortises; framing-table Mining (see quot. and sense 3).
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 914/1. *Framing-chisel.
1583. Hollyband, Campo di Fior, 57. The colledge is the *framing house, and as it were, The shoppe of men.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 913/2. The *framing-table is eight feet long, four feet wide, and has a ledge around it. It is suspended in an inclined position, on pivots, so that it may be tipped into a vertical position when full, discharging its contents into separate cisterns beneath.
1522. Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 184. Le *framyng tymbre.