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Definition of Sizings
1. sizing [n] - See also: sizing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sizings
Literary usage of Sizings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"Payments at Oxford for college expenses (called sizings at Cambridge); from an
old word signifying a coin. Batter. To slope inwards. Battlement. ..."
2. Archives of the Public Health Laboratory of the University of Manchester by University of Manchester, A. Sheridan Deléphine (1906)
"What is trimmed off the " ' sizings,' after being in lime and water for many
days, are dried first in " skins is classed as ' picked sizings,' ' rough ..."
3. The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast by John Camden Hotten (1865)
"Soup, pastry, &c., are sizings, and are paid for at a certain specified rate per
SIZE, or portion, to the college cook.—Peculiar to Cambridge. ..."
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