▪ I. champing, vbl. n.1
(ˈtʃæmpɪŋ)
[f. champ v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. champ; chewing with vigorous action, mashing.
| 1592 Lyly Mydas iv. iii. 49 Give mee a pastie for a parke..then shalt see a notable champing. 1714 Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I. 162 This little bit, after much chomping and chewing..goes down with him like chop'd hay. 1857 Livingstone Trav. xv. 268 When eating, they [alligators] make a loud champing noise. 1863 J. L. W. By-gone Days 9 The beating, or, as it was called, the ‘champin'’, of the potatoes was a work of strength. 1882 19th Cent. No. 69. 738 He..heard the champing of the bits. |
▪ II. † ˈchamping, vbl. n.2 Obs.
= shampooing.
| 1698 Hans Sloane in Phil. Trans. XX. 462 A kind of Instrument, called, in China, a Champing Instrument. Its use is to be rub'd or roul'd over the Muscular Flesh. 1782–3 W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. 262 Nor is this operation of champing..only practised after bathing. |
▪ III. ˈchamping, ppl. a.
That champs.
| 1647 H. More Song of Soul i. ii. xc, Corvino straight foam'd like his champing jade. |