[f. BALL v.1 + -ING1.]

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  1.  Formation into a ball or balls; occas. attrib., as in balling-machine (for winding twine), -furnace.

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1713.  Lond. & Country Brew., II. (1743), 135. This Mixing of the Malt … will prevent its Balling, or Gathering together in Heaps.

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1869.  Eng. Mech., 31 Dec., 387/2. Engravings of a 1/2 lb. and 1 lb. balling machine.

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1881.  Raymond, Mining Gloss., Balling, the aggregation of iron in the puddling … process into balls or loups.

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  2.  The throwing of (snow-) balls.

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1865.  G. Macdonald, A. Forbes, xvi. 64. The balling ceased, that Annie … might pass in safety.

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