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hosing
hosing
English
Verb
hosing
- present participle of hose
Etymology 2
From hose + -ing (gerund ending).
Noun
hosing (plural hosings)
Etymology 3
From Middle English hosinge, hosiinge, hosiynge, equivalent to hose + -ing.
Noun
hosing
- (archaic) Material used for making hosiery.
- 1850, Daniel Drake, A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America
- Their hosing, also, in the middle and northern parts of the Valley, is quite insufficient; being generally of cotton or silk […]
- 1850, Daniel Drake, A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America