2. Noun. A cleaning with soap. ¹
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Definition of Soaping
1. soap [v] - See also: soap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soaping
Literary usage of Soaping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Printing of Textile Fabrics: A Practical Manual on the Printing of by Charles Frederick Seymour Rothwell (1897)
"soaping Becks.—Certain styles require to be soaped for a very much longer ...
A machine, which stands midway between the open soaper and the soaping beck, ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1889)
"AT the Buffalo meeting, October, 1888, Dr. Raymond presented a paper entitled: "
soaping Geysers" (p. 449 of the present volume), iu which he called ..."
3. Dyeing and Calico Printing: Including an Account of the Most Recent by Frederick Crace Calvert, John Stenhouse, Charles Edward Groves (1876)
"The temperature of the beck is maintained at 180° F. They arc then taken out,
thoroughly washed, and subjected to a second soaping. ..."
4. In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw (1907)
"A Fountain fifteen hundred Feet high — Foolhardy Feat of a Guide^How the Tourists
were killed — A Maori Village — soaping a Geyser — The End. RED roofs and ..."
5. A Treatise on the Inspection of Concrete Construction: Containing Practical by Jerome Cochran (1913)
"WETTING, OILING AND soaping OF FORMS Adhesion of Concrete to Forms.—Sometimes
concrete has a tendency to stick to the forms. When these are removed, ..."