hooding
(ˈhʊdɪŋ)
[f. hood v. or n.1 + -ing1.]
1. The wearing or putting on of a hood.
| c 1575 Perf. Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes (1886) 14 Hoding is a singuler poynt in hawking. |
† 2. The making of, or material for, hoods. Obs.
| c 1450 Stratford MSS. (Wright Prov. Dict.), Also the maystir schalle every yere ordeyn cloth for hodynge. |
3. Naut. (pl.) = hood n.1 5 f.
| 1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 4 Those plankes that are fastened into the ships stem are called whoodings. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hoods, or Hoodings, the foremost and aftermost planks of the bottom, within and without. |
4. attrib. hooding-end = hood-end; hooding-sheaf = hood-sheaf: see hood n.1 8.
| 1711 W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 161 Hooding-ends; the But-ends in the Rabbits of the Stem and Sternpost, which are more hid by the Rabbits than the other But-ends are. 1802 Acerbi Trav. I. 30 The sheaves of corn..are..covered with one hooding-sheaf expanded at the end, for warding off the rain. |