[f. JOB v.1 + -ING1.] The action of JOB v.1; stabbing, thrusting, etc.

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1573, a. 1795.  [see JOB v.1 2].

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1814.  Sporting Mag., XLIV. 71. His adversary was not to be pinked away by left-handed jobbing.

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1889.  R. S. S. Baden-Powell, Pigsticking, 82. No jobbing or spurring would induce the horse to move.

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  b.  attrib. Used for ‘jobbing’ or thrusting, as jobbing-knife, -spear.

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1870.  trans. Erckmann-Chatrian’s Waterloo, 122. These men with their jobbing-knives in their leather belts.

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1889.  R. S. S. Baden-Powell, Pigsticking, 89. Two kinds of spear are used in India, the long or ‘underhand’ spear, and the short or ‘jobbing’ spear.

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