ˈdraining, vbl. n.
[f. drain v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb drain in various senses; drainage.
| 1565–73 Cooper Thesaurus, Deriuatio..a turning: a drayning. 1599 Minsheu Sp. Dict., Esguazo, the draining or drawing of water from a boggie or marrish ground. 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. ix. 209 The drayning of the great Level in Northamptonshire. 1753 N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 90 The Inside of the Nose remained perfectly clear, and free, nor was there any running or draining from thence. 1834 Penny Cycl. I. 225/1 The subsoil is..not wet for want of outlet or draining. 1849 Cobden Speeches 73 This inordinate draining upon the prosperity of the country. |
2. That which is drained off;
= drainage 3.
| 1834 Penny Cycl. I. 228/1 Liquid manure..drainings of dunghills. |
3. Something used to drain a flower-pot, etc.
| 1852 Beck's Florist 224 Plant them singly in a 60-size pot..with plenty of drainings in the bottom. |
4. attrib. and
Comb., as
draining-auger,
draining-brick,
draining-engine,
draining-machine,
draining-pen (Sheep-farming),
draining-plough,
draining-pot,
draining-tile,
draining-well, etc.
draining-board, a grooved and sloping board on which utensils are put to drain after they have been washed; so
draining-table.
| 1874 Knight Dict. Mech., *Draining-auger, a horizontal auger occasionally used for boring through a bank to form a channel for water. |
| 1906 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 4/2 Few sculleries are equipped with a *draining-board. 1933 Archit. Rev. LXXIV. 42/3 (caption) A typical gas-operated built-in refrigerator installed under the draining board. |
| 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1807) I. 415 Another form of *draining-brick for forming larger sorts of drains. |
| 1629 Drayner Conf. (1647) A ij b, A great guid in this *drayning businesse. |
| 1874 Knight Dict. Mech., *Draining-machine, a form of filter or machine for expediting the separation of a liquid from the magma or mass of more solid matter which it saturates. |
| 1919 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 21 Apr. 224 Information is furnished..regarding the best method of finishing off the concrete floor of a sheep-dip *draining-pen. 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminology Shearing Industry i. 25 In the older ‘dips’ and also in modern ‘sheep showers’, this is an adjoining draining pen to which sheep go after treatment with the ‘wash’ or ‘dip’. |
| 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 122/1 A *draining plough has been invented which..greatly accelerates the operation of forming drains. |
| 1874 Knight Dict. Mech., *Draining-pot (Sugar-manufacture), an inverted conical vessel in which wet sugar is placed to drain. |
| 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 230/2 Plate Rack and Folding *Draining Table Combined (Patent). |
| 1712 J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 41 *Draining Wells should be made, at convenient Distances. |