scabbing, vbl. n.
(ˈskæbɪŋ)
[f. scab v. + -ing1.]
1. The process of forming a scab.
| 1747 Wall in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 593, I now usually continue it..till, the Scabbing being perfected, I find it Time to cleanse the first Passages. 1805 Med. Jrnl. XIV. 507 The usual inflammation, vesication, and scabbing of the punctured part. 1876 Trans. Clinical Soc. IX. 161 The wound healed by scabbing. |
2. Iron-founding. (See scab n. 3 c.)
| 1883 T. D. West Amer. Foundry Pract. 246 Scabbing in loam and dry sand moulds. |
3. a. The action of scab v. 3; refusal to strike on the part of a worker or employment of scab labour by a firm. Also fig.
| 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Nov. 9/2 The worker who strikes while the war is on is guilty of scabbing. 1956 Ibid. 2 Feb. 18/1 Under a PSC order..the company would not be in a position of ‘scabbing’. 1973 Telegraph (Brisbane) 28 July 5/2 In trades union circles the deadliest of sins is ‘scabbing’ while your union is on strike. |
So ˈscabbing ppl. a. (orig. the vbl. n. used attrib.), characterized by the formation of a scab.
| 1803 Med. Jrnl. X. 190 To shew..the progress of the inoculated cow-pock, through its stages of growing into a vesicle, constitutional disorder, scabbing process [etc.]. 1829 Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) III. 114 The progress of the disease has often been divided into four stages, an incursive, an eruptive, a maturing, and a declining or scabbing. 1872 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. 483 Associated with a wound, punctured or open,..healing, or scabbing. |