primings

Supposedly, it could be used safely up to five primings, but none of them had ever gone past three.

Fishers of Hope J. E. Cammon 2011

The support should be even, absorbent, and of a shade that would enhance the colors used. 32 An abraded surface promoted adhesion of color for copper or other metal supports, and these might be sanded or roughened before priming layers were applied. 33 Oil colors on canvas might require up to half a dozen underlayers of sizing gessoes, dead colorings, and other primings.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

There could be 5 to 6 primings or a total green pod harvest of about 2.5 t/ha

Chapter 21 1992

"I'll give a look to our primings while ye drink a stirrup-cup."

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

Fill the magazine, on the top of the breech, with percussion pills or primings, and the tube, under the barrel, with the hollow cartridges containing gunpowder.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

The rejected lower leaves or primings, in the days of slavery, formed one of the mistress 'perquisites and were carefully collected by the

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Under the old _régime_ when on every plantation were a score or more of idle negro urchins, a large portion of the labor could be performed by them, such as worming, dropping the plants, and picking up the primings, while now the labor has to be paid for in money or its equivalent.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Said he, setting a musquetoon ready to hand and glancing at the primings of his pistols.

Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

Obediently he raised his hands and, taking his pistols, I opened the pan of each one and, having blown out the primings, tossed them back.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

We made a last examination of flints and primings, and Cousin softly arranged the heavy door bar so it might be displaced with a single movement.

A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907