Definition of Glassing

1. Verb. (present participle of glass) ¹

2. Noun. An act of glassing (stabbing with broken glass). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glassing

1. glass [v] - See also: glass

Literary usage of Glassing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tecumseh, Or, The West Thirty Years Since: A Poem by George Hooker Colton (1842)
"For now the pilgrim youth are borne along, Where the sky-glassing waters of the north— With many a green isle on their azure flung, And streams, ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"rubbing it with a slicker or glassing-jack, glassing-jack ... glassing-machine (glas'ing-ma-shen'), ». Same as glassing-jack. ..."

3. The Matter with nervousness by Herbert Carleton Sawyer (1909)
"The writer's experience with "mere" glassing in nerve cure is this: a few ... But where glassing is made one horse in an eight- horse team it often renders ..."

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