▪ I. † gulling, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. gull v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of gull v.1; swallowing, guzzling; hence, gormandizing, gluttonous feasting.
| 1543 Becon Policy War Wks. 1564 I. 136 What drynkyng, gullyng, quaffyng, & superfluous banketing do they vse! 1549 Latimer Serm. bef. Edw. VI, vi. T iiij, They were wonte to goo a brode in the fyeldes a shootynge, but nowe it is turned in to glossing, gullyng, and whoringe wythin the housse. 1604 T. Wright Passions iv. i. 186 If men talke of meat and drinke, of gulling and feasting..such persons, for most part, addict themselves to gluttonie. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. ii. 124, I could not but obserue their gulling in of wine with a deare felicitie. |
▪ II. gulling, vbl. n.2
(ˈgʌlɪŋ)
[f. gull v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of gull v.2; wearing away or hollowing out effected by the action of running water or other means.
| 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) 353 Hilles by force of gulling oft haue into sea beene worne. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 45 Let them [meadows] be kept from gulling and trampling of cattel. 1715 Kersey, Gulling, when the pin of a Block or Pully eats into the Shiver, or the Yard into the Mast. 1739 C. Labelye Short Acc. Piers Westm. Bridge 61 The Gulling of a River..is nearly in Proportion to the Velocity of the Stream. 1744–50 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. III. i. 166 Sudden damage [to roads]..by the wash of rain and the gulling of wheels. 1842 Gwilt Encycl. Archit. 691 Gulling of the paper from the point of the compasses. |
▪ III. ˈgulling, vbl. n.3
[f. gull v.3 + -ing1.]
The action of gull v.3; cheating, deception.
| 1600 Rowlands Lett. Humours Blood i. 47 Wealthy Chuffes Worth gulling. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. iv, What company soeuer they come in, they will be..putting gulleries of some or other, till they haue made by their humoring and gulling, ex stulto insanum. 1634 Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 257 A mere gulling and mocking of the world. |
▪ IV. † gulling, ppl. a.1 Obs.
(ˈgʌlɪŋ)
[f. gull v.1 + -ing2.]
Guzzling; voracious. Also transf.
| 1579 Remedy Lawlesse Loue (Roxb.) c i, The drunkarde loues..To powre the wine into his gulling gut. 1604 T. Wright Passions iv. ii. §2. 129 Such men, in the heat of their gulling feasts ouershoot themselues extreamely. |
▪ V. ˈgulling, ppl. a.2
(ˈgʌlɪŋ)
[f. gull v.3 + -ing2.]
That gulls or deceives; cheating, deceptive.
| ? 1595 Davies (title) Gullinge Sonnets, in Poems (Grosart) I. 51. 1614 Jackson Creed II. 57 To collect a gulling sence from such. 1866 Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 54 Those absurd medicines and gulling advertisements. |