vbl. sb. [f. THREAD v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb THREAD in various senses; an instance of this.
1611. Cotgr., Filet d’huyle, a small drop, or threading of oyle.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 293. We see in Liquors, the thredding of them in Stillicides.
1852. R. S. Surtees, Sponge’s Sp. Tour (1893), 118. The collar … exhibited all the stitchings and threadings incident to that department of the garment.
1887. E. Gurney, Tertium Quid, II. 45. Accurate thridding of labyrinthine things.
1889. Pall Mall G., 25 Nov., 7/1. The machine which does the threading [of screws] is complicated and slow.
1908. R. W. Chambers, Firing Line, xxviii. Another woman awoke to take up the ravelled threadings of her life again.
