Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabbying
Literary usage of Tabbying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"... having an irregularly waved or watered surface produced by pressure, usually
between engraved rollers in the mode of calendering, known as tabbying. ..."
2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"tabbying ... TABBY, in commerce, a kind of rich filk which has undergone the
operation of tabbying. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... the operation of tabbying or being passed through a calender, the rolls of
which are made of iron or copper variously figured, which, bearing unequally ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"TABBY, a variety of rich watered silk which has undergone the operation of tabbying
or being passed through a calender, the rolls of which are made of iron ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... ppr. tabbying. [< tabby1, ».] To cause to look like tabby, or watered silk;
give a wavy appearance to, as stuffs: as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, ..."
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