vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TRANSFER; transference.
1573. Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 284. Thai obtenit ane decreit of transfering befoir the Lordis of Counsall and Sessioun.
1651. Hobbes, Govt. & Soc., ii. § 7. 23. Words … effectuall towards the perfect transferring of his Right.
1688. Act Sederunt, 26 July, in Fountainhall, Hist. Not. (Bann. Cl.), 882. After wakenings and transferrings are seen and returned, they need not byde the course of the roll, but may be summarly called and decerned, or debated.
1766. Blackstone, Comm., II. xxx. 446. If it be a transferring of goods for money, it is called a sale.
1904. D. Cumming, Lithography, xx. 194. [Zinc and Aluminium] Plates with a fine grain or ‘tooth’ … suitable for all classes of transferring and printing.
attrib. 1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., xxiv. (1842), 634. Exhaust the retort…, attach it to a graduated transferring jar.
