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Webster 1913 Edition
Seizing
Seiz′ing
,Noun.
1.
The act of taking or grasping suddenly.
2.
(Naut.)
(a)
The operation of fastening together or lashing.
(b)
The cord or lashing used for such fastening.
Webster 1828 Edition
Seizing
SE'IZING
,ppr.
SE'IZING
,Noun.
1. The act of taking or grasping suddenly.
2. In seamen's language, the operation of fastening together ropes with a cord; also, the cord or cords used for such fastening.
Definition 2024
seizing
seizing
English
Verb
seizing
- present participle of seize
Noun
seizing (plural seizings)
- a type of lashing or binding by a small cord
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 36
- Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!”
- Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
- Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 36
Adjective
seizing (comparative more seizing, superlative most seizing)
- That seizes the attention; impressive.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
- It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 45: