Folding
['fəʊldɪŋ] or ['foldɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fold
(n.) The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
(n.) The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
Checker: Mortimer
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Plait, double, FOLD.
Edited by Benson
Examples
- You shall be sure of me, darling, he said, folding her in his arms. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Each of those machines, with a boy as an attendant, will fold 2,700 envelopes in an hour, which is nearly the same number that an experienced workman can fold in a day with a folding stick. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- With a difference, my dear Sir; with a difference,' rejoined Perker, deliberately folding up the paper and putting it into his pocket again. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- So long as you goes now, said he, folding his arms and shutting his eyes with an oath, you may do wot you like! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Very well,' said this gentleman, briskly smiling, and folding his arms. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- There was a folding-window to the carriage-head, but I never closed it, for it seemed like shutting out hope. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Riah drew some folding tablets from his breast and noted it down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Folding a shawl round her, I carried her back to the drawing-room. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She was in a room the folding-doors of which stood open: I went in when she addressed me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mention has been made of a combined folding desk and extensible table. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mr. Pumblechook began again when he had recovered; folding his arms tight on his chest and applying the screw. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mary Garth can bear being at Stone Court, because she likes that better than being a governess, said Rosamond, folding up her work. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In short, says the trooper, folding his arms more resolutely yet, I mean--TO--scratch me! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She gave these answers, with her attention apparently absorbed in folding and refolding the frilling on her nightgown. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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