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APPENDIX
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Nominalization Hammering
Base
Hammer (v)
Definition OED Hammering n. 1. The action of striking, knocking, or
beating out with a hammer; the dealing of hard reiterated blows
as with a hammer. Also fig.
Earliest attestation 1563 (OED)
Example
First, that either hammering, or filing, or otherwise violently
rubbing of Steel, will presently make it so hot as to be able to
burn ones fingers. Hooke, Life.
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Nominalization Handling
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Handle (v)
Definition OED Handling n. 1. a. The action of touching, feeling, or
grasping with the hand; management with the hand, wielding,
manipulation; laying hands on; treatment in which the hands are
effectively (or roughly) used.
Earliest attestation c1100 (OED)
Example
(...) nowe nature digesteth nothing but to [^p.8^] make vse of
nourishment thereof: else whatsoeuer entreth into the body,
passeth as it commeth, and hath no welcomming: but is refused
as impertinent; nature bestowing no handling therof: (...).
Bright, Melancholy.
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Nominalization Hanging
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Hang (v)
Definition OED Hanging n. 1. The action of suspending or fact of being
suspended; suspension.
Earliest attestation c1400 (OED)
Example
(...) and then brought the Electric, as soon as we could, to settle
notwithstanding its hanging freely at the bottom of the string.
Boyle, Magnetism.
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Definition
Earliest attestation
Example
Hardening
Harden (v)
The action of making something hard.
Cf. Harden v. 1. a. To render or make hard; to indurate.
1630 (OED)
So that, it seems, Iron does contain a very combustible
sulphureous Body, which is, in all likelihood, one of the causes of
this Phaenomenon, and which may be perhaps very much
concerned in the business of its hardening and tempering: (...).
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