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FOLDINGS
Noun
foldings
plural of folding
Source: Wiktionary
FOLDING
Fold"ing, n.
1. The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication. The lower foldings of the vest. Addison.
2. (Agric.)
Definition: The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc. Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Folding chairFolding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.
FOLD
Fold, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Folded; p. pr. & vb. n. Folding.] Etym: [OE. folden, falden, AS. fealdan; akin to OHG. faltan, faldan, G. falten, Icel. falda, Dan. folde, Sw. fålla, Goth. fal, cf. Gr.pu a fold. Cf. Fauteuil.]
1. To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter. As a vesture shalt thou fold them up. Heb. i. 12.
2. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
3. To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace. A face folded in sorrow. J. Webster. We will descend and fold him in our arms. Shak.
4. To cover or wrap up; to conceal. Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses. Shak.
Fold, v. i.
Definition: To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold. 1 Kings vi. 34.
Fold, n. Etym: [From Fold, v. In sense 2 AS. -feald, akin to fealdan to fold.]
1. A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication. Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen. Bacon. Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions. J. D. Dana.
2. Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
3. That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace. Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold. Shak. Fold net, a kind of net used in catching birds.
Fold, n. Etym: [OE. fald, fold, AS. fald, falod.]
1. An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.
2. A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold. There shall be one fold and one shepherd. John x. 16. The very whitest lamb in all my fold. Tennyson.
3. A boundary; a limit. [Obs.] Creech. Fold yard, an inclosure for sheep or cattle.
Fold, v. t.
Definition: To confine in a fold, as sheep.
Fold, v. i.
Definition: To confine sheep in a fold. [R.] The star that bids the shepherd fold. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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