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動詞

dewing

1. present participle and gerund of dew

名詞

dewing (uncountable)

1. The formation of dew.
   • 1852, Francis Bacon, An Explanatory Version of Lord Bacon's Novum Organum, page 26:

     […] the dewing of a metal plate when breathed upon, the dewing of the outside of a glass when very cold water is poured into it, […]

2. Other condensation (of water vapor or other gases) physically analogous to dew formation.
   • 1960 February, “Letters to the Editor”, in Trains Illustrated, page 128:

     The fact remains that, for a given gas composition, it is the metal temperature that determines whether or not dewing (and hence corrosion) takes place.

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de- +‎ wing

動詞

dewing (third-person singular simple present dewings, present participle dewinging, simple past and past participle dewinged)

1. (transitive) To remove wings or a wing from.

   Coordinate terms: clip the wings of, de-tail, debeak

   • 1954, Philip Carman Wakeley, Planting the Southern Pines, page 53:

     the seed with wings attached withstood storage very significantly better than dewinged seed.

   • 1974, Russell F. Reidinger, Jr. and D. Glen Crabtree, “Organochlorine Residues in Golden Eagles, United States—March 1964-July 1971”, in Pesticides Monitoring Journal, volumes 8-9, page 37:

     The birds were then dewinged, debeaked, and skinned for tissue sample removal.

   • 1991 March 12, “4,998,322 / SYSTEM FOR DEWINGING FOWL”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 581:

     1. An apparatus for dewinging a bird […]

   • 2012, A. Maton, ‎J. Daelemans, ‎J. Lambrecht, Housing of Animals: Construction and Equipment of Animal Houses, page 378:

     The birds are de-winged after birth to prevent them flying in the house.

   • 2012, G. J. Mountney, Poultry Meat and Egg Production:

     A few examples of poultry husbandry practices that have been questioned include the following: / […] 7. Beak trimming, dubbing, dewinging, detoeing, and other hatchery-initiated management practices.

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• “dewing”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Gwendi, winged, Wendig, wingèd