Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a steam-engine, a jacket inclosing the pipes or cylinder of a steam-boiler, to prevent radiation of the heat. Also called
cleading and lagging.
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- verb Present participle of
dead .
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Examples
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Have you whines for my wedding, did you bring bride and bedding, will you whoop for my deading is a?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The clearing is very laborious, though the labor is lessened and divided, by belting, and so "deading" the large trees.
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By "deading" is meant killing the trees, by cutting a nick all round each, quite through the bark.
Moses Grandy. Narrative of the Life of MosesGrandy, Late a Slave in the UnitedStates of America. 1843
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a piece of ground in the woods adjoining the plantation: by 'deading' is meant killing the trees, by cutting a nick all round each, quite through the bark.
Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy Late a Slave in the USA Grandy, Moses 1844
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I am already deading the inevitable wankfest that is soon to follow in which the TFC fans who protested will convince themselves it is all because of them that this change happened.
Sutton out; Gerba, Garcia in as TFC reshuffles Duane Rollins 2009
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Snark Juice has the unfortunate characteristic of deading the drinker's understanding that the calendar extends past the 13th of the month.
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This is deliberate, as we want to go back to that time in our life when there was no worse insult than “stoopy head” and before our creativity and inner voices were squelched in acclimation to the brain deading hell hole known as “the real world.”
Mahm!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And he did win the Cold War, but I think his legacy is a lot bigger than that because he re - moralized American foreign policy and he put America on a path to fight Euroschlerosis and the sort of deading of the American economy.
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It was still operating under the deading influence of the para-site gram that had been installed by the female Inzini.
The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Well, it appears that Democrats have finally settled on a strategy, too, and it apparently is behind Harry Reid's deading of the "bipartisan jobs bill" last week.
The Reid Report jreid 2010
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