▪ I. ˈsoldering, vbl. n.
[f. solder v.]
1. The action of joining or mending with solder.
| 1466 Paston Lett. II. 268 To the glaser for takyn owte of ii. panys of the wyndows..and sowderyng new of the same, xxd. 1472–3 Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 247 Pro sowderyng unius le gutter plumb. 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xvi. xix. (Caxton) 559 Glewe hath vertue of drawynge and soudrynge. 1511 Nottingham Rec. III. 335 Peid to Thomas Illyngworth for sawderyng of a gutter. 1580 Frampton Dial. Yron & Steele 148 b, I doe not speake of the finenesse and delicatenesse that there is in sodering of it. 1605 in W. Kelly Notices Illustr. Drama (1865) 246 For sawderinge of other panes of glasse in the Halle. 1658 Manton Expos. Jude 2 Wks. 1871 V. 69 But our reconciliation with God, it is like the soldering of a vessel, which is strongest in the crack. 1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v., In the Soldering of all these Metals, they generally use Borax in Powder. 1807 T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 566 Its great use is to facilitate the soldering of the more precious metals. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2240/1 Soldering was apparently unknown in Greece in the time of Homer. |
b. With adjs., as hard, soft.
| 1832 Babbage Econ. Manuf. xv. (ed. 3) 143 Hard soldering gives a better coat of silver. 1843 Holtzapffel Turning I. 433 In soft-soldering, the binding wire is scarcely ever used. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 350 The one method is called hard and the other soft soldering. |
2. The action of uniting or joining closely; an instance of this.
| 1550 Bale Apol. 17 All the unsounde sowderinges of Alyngtons sophistry, wyll not be found able workmanly to clowte up thys foule broken hole. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 226 The commixture and sodering (as it were) of good will and kinde affection. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 835 All mixtures of selfe, and soderings against the Word. 1728 Phil. Trans. XXXV. 634 To steep them in Clay or Fuller's earth..before you heat them, to prevent their soldering with one another. 1857 Pusey Doctr. Real Presence (1869) i. 104, I assert a real union, yet it is not by conclusion or soldering, but Sacramental. |
3. Solder; material used for soldering with.
| 1648 Hexham ii, Loot-metael, Lead-mettall, or Saudering. a 1682 Sir T. Browne Tracts (1683) 4 Refining, Sodering, Dross, Nitre. 1880 Daily News 7 Oct. 6/7 A portion of the metal from the tin or from the soldering had become absorbed by the meat. |
4. A soldered place or part.
| 1889 Telegr. Jrnl. XXV. 349 Even the delicate solderings of the ends of these wires to the copper clips were apparently the same as ever. |
5. attrib., chiefly in the names of tools or apparatus used in soldering, as soldering iron.
Descriptions of many of these are given by Knight Dict. Mech. (1875 and 1884).
| 1675 Baxter Cath. The. ii. i. 280 A man that is set on a sodering design may palliate any Heresie in the world. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 307/1 These Sodering Irons are only used about Lead Workings. Ibid., Other Soddering Irons there are used by other Trades. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 633 It is smoothed and finished by rubbing it about with a red-hot soldering iron. 1843 Holtzapffel Turning I. 446 The soldering-tool is then thin and keen on the edge. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Rec. Ser. i. 366/1 See that the soldering iron..is well tinned. 1893 Spons' Mech. Own Book (ed. 4) 101 A soldering bit may be made by taking a piece of stout brass wire..about 6 in. long [etc.]. 1900 Hasluck Mod. Eng. Handybk. 139 For soft solders, the best flux is a soldering fluid which may be prepared by saturating hydrochloric acid with zinc. |
▪ II. ˈsoldering, ppl. a.
[f. solder v.]
That solders or unites.
| 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Drie Dinner To Rdrs., Of a stiffening and soddering nature. 1652 W. Blithe Engl. Improver Impr. 110 There are some Lands, so Binding, so Tough a Sodering Clay. |