2. Noun. (alternative form of dialing) ¹
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Definition of Dialling
1. dialing [n -S] - See also: dialing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dialling
Literary usage of Dialling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights which are Here Displayed by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"I own a number of old books on dialling, and I find these ceiling-dials a ...
In Ley bourne's dialling (my copy is a vast folio of the year 1700) many rules ..."
2. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"To Mr. JL, upon his Treatise of dialling OLD Time, but for thy art, alone would
pass, And idly bear his solitary glass: I in ..."
3. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1831)
"D. V Sir,—The subject of dialling having been mentioned in your ... This is the
foundation of the art of dialling; for in practice, that edge of the gnomon ..."
4. The Practical Miner's Guide: Comprising a Set of Trigonometrical Tables by John Budge (1845)
"PLANE sailing in navigation, and horizontal dialling in mining, are nothing more
than the practice of right angled trigonometry, calling the hypothe- nuse ..."
5. Treatise on Mine-surveying by Bennett Hooper Brough (1906)
"dialling-Book.—The best form of dialling-book to adopt is an ordinary account^book,
the £, s., and d. columns serving for fathoms, feet, and inches. ..."
6. Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining by William Pryce (1778)
"... place the dial horizontally : and pegs and pins of wood, a piece of chalk,
and pen, ink, and paper. The method of dialling an Adit, in order to fink a ..."
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