steeping
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See also: Steeping
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
steeping
- present participle and gerund of steep
Noun[edit]
steeping (countable and uncountable, plural steepings)
- An instance of something being steeped; a wetting.
- 1838, George Adolphus Wigney, An Elementary Dictionary, Or, Cyclopaediae, for the Use of Maltsters, Brewers &c., page 28:
- It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings […]
Etymology 2[edit]
From the name of Stephen de Fulbourn, who served as bishop of Waterford, archbishop of Tuam, and treasurer and justiciar of Ireland in the 1270s and 1280s.
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
steeping (plural steepings)
- (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin circulated in Ireland as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under King Edward I.