vbl. sb. [f. TICKET v. + -ING1.] The action of TICKET v.
1. Marking with or as with a ticket; labelling.
1844. G. Dodd, Textile Manuf., vii. 228. After a process of rolling, pressing, ticketing, &c., the article is finished.
1866. Dk. Argyll, Reign Law, i. (ed. 4), 4. The mere ticketing and orderly assortment of external facts.
2. Bidding by a ‘ticket’ or written tender; with pl. a sale of ore at which the bids are made in this way. local.
1778. Pryce, Min. Cornub., 288. The present mode of ticketing for Copper Ores.
1854. C. S. Edsall (title), Copper Ore Tables,… with the method of conducting the Ticketings.
1912. Financial Times, 30 April. Redruth Tin Ticketing.
3. attrib. (chiefly in sense 2).
1778. Pryce, Min. Cornub., 288. On this ticketing day a dinner almost equal to a city feast is provided at the expence of the Mines. Ibid. A duplicate of a ticketing paper.
1839. De la Beche, Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc., xv. 541. The copper-ore sales, or ticketing-days, as they are termed.
1905. Holman-Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism, I. 9. Securing from the ‘ticketing room’ a print of Britannia.
