[f. LIST sb.3 + -ING1.]
1. Selvage; list; border; the material of which the list of cloth is composed.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 696/22. Hec forigo, a lystynge.
1444. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), II. 99. j coverlet de blodio … cum alio coopertorio rubeo habente in lystyng volucres et albas ollas.
1762. Goldsm., Cit. W., xxx. The humid wall, with paltry pictures spread;… The Seasons, framed with listing, found a place.
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 115. Procure two yards … of web, of broad tape, or cloth listing.
1827. Carlyle, Germ. Rom., II. 152. A … chamber, hung round with red damask, which was trimmed with golden listings.
1835. Ure, Philos. Manuf., 206. Wool … so coarse that we could use it only in the edging of cloths or listing.
1870. Rock, Text. Fabr., I. 178. The listing or border … charged with a … rich ornamentation.
2. Naut. (See quot.)
1846. Young, Naut. Dict., Listing, a narrow strip cut out off the edge of a plank in order to expose the vessel’s timbers for examination; or in order to put in a new piece instead of altogether replacing a defective or damaged plank.
3. Comb.: listing-pot = list-pot: see LIST sb.3 11.
1818. S. Parkes, in Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Manch. (1819), Ser. II. III. 362. The listing-pot, with a little melted tin in it.
