'Dialling' definitions:

Definition of 'Dialling'

From: GCIDE
  • Dial \Di"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dialedor Dialled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dialing or Dialling.]
  • 1. To measure with a dial. [1913 Webster]
  • Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven. --Talfourd. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mining) To survey with a dial. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'dialling'

From: GCIDE
  • Dialing \Di"al*ing\, n.
  • 1. The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. [Written also dialling.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

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