Dialing

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dial \Di"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dialed}or {Dialled}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Dialing} or {Dialling}.]
     1. To measure with a dial.
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              Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven.


                                                    --Talfourd.
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     2. (Mining) To survey with a dial. --Raymond.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dialing \Di"al*ing\, n.
     1. The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of
        measuring time by dials. [Written also {dialling}.]
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     2. A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the
        bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make
        with each other, are determined by means of the
        circumferentor.
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