▪ I. reˈpairing, vbl. n.1 rare.
[f. repair v.1 + -ing1.]
The fact of going or resorting (to a place); † return; † place of repair or resort.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce iv. 495 Heir I saw the men..mak luging, Heir trow I be thair reparyng. c 1400 Beryn 2814 For, when he was go, They had no maner ioy;..For of his repeyryng they had no sikernes. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x. 492 In my repayring diuerse times to the Roade..with my Squadron. 1703 Lond. Gaz. No. 3880/1 The exact time of their Repairing respectively on Board. |
▪ II. repairing, vbl. n.2
(rɪˈpɛərɪŋ)
[f. repair v.2 + -ing1.]
1. a. The (or an) action or process of restoring or mending; reparation, repair.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 129 At þe repayrynge of Seynt Petres chirche he wente to wiþ a mattok, and opened first þe erþe. 1486 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 18 The repayryng & renewyng of the vestymentes & Ornamentes belongyng to the awter. 1535 Coverdale 2 Chron. xxiv. 13 Y⊇ repairinge in y⊇ worke went forwarde thorow their hande. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 38 A paire of shooes..would haue serued a man almost a whole yeere togither, with a little repairing. 1631 Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 565 In all his new buildings or repairings, hee caused the pictures of a Lambe and an Eagle to be thereupon drawne or depicted. 1691 T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 28 Their Ransackings, Groundings, Dockings, and Repairings. 1730 A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 43 This Repairing of it was not perfected by Heliogabalus. 1790 Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 58 The repairing of their fleet took them up a considerable time. 1863 H. Cox Instit. iii. viii. 721 The Commissioners are empowered to order the repairing of ships. |
† b. spec. (See quot.) Obs. rare—1.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 259/2 Repairing is to take away the Superfluities of Sodering by Filing, &c. |
2. attrib. as repairing lease, repairing shop, repairing yard.
| 1831 A. A. Watts Scenes of Life I. 196 Our tenure was a ‘repairing lease’. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. x. 9 The workshops and repairing-yard. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 199 France has no such collection of engine and repairing shops as are to be seen on the Thames. 1935 E. Farjeon Nursery in Nineties 522 The house..was on a repairing lease, and some hundreds of pounds were demanded if we left at once. 1972 C. Drummond Death at Bar ii. 45 The house agent..rubbed his hands at the prospect of getting some free work done on the place for it was not a repairing lease. |
So reˈpairing ppl. a.
| 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. iii. 22 'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled, Being opposites of such repayring Nature. 1647 Clarendon Contempl. on Ps. Tracts (1727) 505 There is a comforting, relieving, and repairing tongue, as well as a destroying and a devouring tongue. |