vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. KNEAD.
1398. [see KNEAD v. B. 1].
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 279/1. Knedynge, pistura.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 211, ¶ 1. That when Prometheus made his Man of Clay, in the kneading up of his Heart, he season’d it with some furious Particles of the Lion.
1893. A. S. Eccles, Sciatica, 48. Vigorous kneading of the calf and hamstring muscles should be practised.
† b. concr. Yeast. Obs.
1638. Penkethman, Artach., G iv b. For Yeast or kneading.
c. attrib. and Comb., as kneading-friction, -machine; † kneading-tub, -vat = next.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Miller’s T., 408. Tomorwe at nyght … In to our knedyng tubbes wol we crepe.
1472–3. Rolls Parlt., VI. 38/1. Item, II knedyng Fates.
1563. Richmond Wills (Surtees), 169. A kneadinge tube … a kneadinge bassyn.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), III. 336. The kneading-friction or shampooing of the Egyptians and Turks.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Kneading-machine, an apparatus for working dough by means of a revolving spiral.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 376. Kneading movements, chiefly with the heel and palm.
