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hosing

hosing

English

Verb

hosing

  1. present participle of hose

Etymology 2

From hose + -ing (gerund ending).

Noun

hosing (plural hosings)

  1. A spraying or washing with a hose.

Etymology 3

From Middle English hosinge, hosiinge, hosiynge, equivalent to hose + -ing.

Noun

hosing

  1. (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 []