[f. LOOP v.1 + -ING1.] The action of LOOP v.1, in various senses.

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1480.  Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV. (1830), 140. Corde and liour for liring and lowping of the same arras.

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1856.  Todd & Bowman, Phys. Anat., II. 81. Evidence of loopings … is wanting. In the cochlea of the bird, however, we have seen at one end a plexiform arrangement of nucleated fibres ending in loops.

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1874.  Wood, Nat. Hist., 704. Their mode of progression is popularly and appropriately termed ‘looping,’ and the caterpillars are called ‘loopers.’

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  attrib.  1857.  Abridgm. Specif. Patents, Sewing, etc. (1871), 27. Combining this needle with a looping apparatus.

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  b.  concr. Material formed into loops; loops as a trimming.

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1690.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2531/4. A Red Pye Coat with black and white Looping.

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