'Stringing' definitions:
Definition of 'Stringing'
From: GCIDE
- String \String\ (str[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. Strung (str[u^]ng); p. p. Strung (R. Stringed (str[i^]ngd)); p. pr. & vb. n. Stringing.]
- 1. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. [1913 Webster]
- Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street? --Gay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it. [1913 Webster]
- For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make tense; to strengthen. [1913 Webster]
- Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Words containing 'Stringing'
- String,
- Stringed,
- string out,
- string up,
- strings,
- Kissing strings,
- Leading strings,
- String band,
- String beans,
- To be in leading strings,
- apron string,
- cosmic string,
- drawing string,
- first string,
- linguistic string,
- pull strings,
- purse string,
- second string,
- shoe string,
- string along,
- string bass,
- string bean,
- string cheese,
- string correspondent,
- string line,
- string of beads,
- string of words,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- string quartette,
- string section,
- string theory,
- string tie,
- stringed instrument,
- third string,
- word string,
- G-string,
- Navel-string,
- To harp on one string,
- bowed stringed instrument,
- first-string,
- second-string,
- To have two strings to one's bow,
- purse-string operation