salading
(ˈsælədɪŋ)
Forms: see salad; also 7 salletine, 8 salatine.
[f. salad + -ing1.]
Herbs and vegetables used for salad.
| 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 190 Sow Chervil, Lettuce, Radish, and other..Salletings. Ibid. 216 Fill your vacant Beds with Sallading. 1670 Narborough in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1694) 69 Some Herbs..we boiled for Salleting. 1687 in Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 236, 36 plates of sallating, piled high and copped, viz., oranges, lemmons, olives, samphire, &c. 1709 E. Ward tr. Cervantes p. v, Several Cart Loads of Endive, Celery, Celician, Lettice, and Tarragon, were sent into the Kitchen to accommodate the Table with raw Salatine. 1771 Sir J. Banks Jrnl. (1896) 442 Garden stuff and salletting. 1851 B'ham & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. May 69 Continue to make sowings..of Peas, Beans, Turnips,..every fortnight, with small salading every week. 1884 Public Opinion 5 Sept. 301/1 The small saladings which make an intermittent appearance at the table. |
b. attrib.: † salading-burnet, = salad-burnet.
| 1766 Museum Rust. VI. 27, I spoke of it as the garden pot-herb, and sallading burnet. |