mossing, vbl. n.
(ˈmɒsɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
The action of the vb. moss in various senses.
| 1700 O. Heywood Diaries, etc. (1885) IV. 231 Sam. Stocks came a mossing. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxvii. 355 All hands..are out ‘mossing’. This mossing..is a frightfully wintry operation. |
| attrib. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 329 This mossing process for renewing the bark |