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sizings

  • plural
    of sizing.
    sizing
    noun
    the act or process of applying size or preparing with size.

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I'm sure they have large numerations of sizings and shapings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sizars at Cambridge are properly students in receipt of certain allowances called sizings.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

For the mere cup and trencher, we no doubt Fared passing well; but as for merriment10 And sport, without which salt and sauces season The cheer but scantily, our sizings were Even of the narrowest.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

According to the former of these gentlemen, who graduated in 1746, the "breakfast was two sizings of bread and a cue of beer"; and "evening commons were a pye."

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

If any one wished for more than was provided, he was obliged to size it, i.e. order from the kitchen or buttery, and this was charged as extra commons or sizings in the quarter-bill.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall