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cleading, vbl. n.|ˈkliːdɪŋ|
[In north. ME. clething, cleding, f. clethe, clead v. + -ing1. In its original sense now only dialectal; but in sense 2 it has passed into general use.]
1. Clothing, apparel. Sc. and north Eng.
a1300Cursor M. 23982 Cleþing [Gött. cledinng] wil I tak of care. a1300E.E. Psalter ci. 27 [cii. 26] And als kleþinge elde sal alle þai. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6943 Vermyn in helle salle be þair clethyng. 1483Cath. Angl. 67 A Clethynge, amictus, vestitus. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 21 Thingis..as feiding, and cleathing. c1600Montgomerie 3 Ventrous Knichts 17 Our clething..And vncouth armes. 1728Ramsay Last Speech Miser xii, What's in either face or cleading, Of painted things. 1802R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. 47 Gi'e us meat, drink, and cleading, it's plenty for us. 1823Galt Entail I. xxxv. 306 ‘This bonny wee new cleiding o' clay.’ 1830― Lawrie T. vi. viii. 289 Plain cleading does very well for plain folk. c1850Janet Hamilton Crinoline 32, I wad juist ha'e yer cleedin' bien, genty, an' doss.
2. Mech. A covering or casing (as of felt or timber), applied to prevent radiation of heat, or to give increased security.
Thus it is used of the jacket or lagging of a boiler, cylinder or pipe; the boarding which lines a shaft or tunnel, etc.
1849–50Weale Dict. Terms, Cleading, in locomotive engines, is usually made of narrow strips of timber, neatly fitted round the boiler and fire-box. 1874Knight Dict. Mech., Cleading..the planking or skin of a canal lock⁓gate. 1881M. Reynolds Engine-Driving 5 Engines..with limbs of burnished Iron and cleading smoothly finished. 1881Raymond Mining Gl., Buntons, to which are nailed the boards forming the cleading or sheathing of a brattice. |
单词 claran 释义 † claran Obs. rare—1.[? cf. Irish clar board.]A kind of boat.1536–7Sta......