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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process or business of obtaining resin or crude turpentine from living pine-trees. Also called turpentine orcharding, turpentine tapping.

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Examples

  • And now, working in my rooms, white-leading and turpentining, is another one of them.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • And now, working in my rooms, white-leading and turpentining, is another one of them.

    Chapter 14 1914

  • Of the men who did the turpentining and white-leading there have been four.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • Many destructive fires also follow turpentining, so that on the whole the turpentine industry is responsible for the destruction each year of large areas of the southern pine forests.

    Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

  • The methods of turpentining introduced by the government result in the saving of thirty per cent. more turpentine, and also protect the trees so that they may be used fifteen or twenty years and still be almost as valuable as ever for timber.

    Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

  • Of the men who did the turpentining and white-leading there have been four.

    Chapter 14 1914

  • Of the men who did the turpentining and white-leading there have been four.

    The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

  • And now, working in my rooms, white-leading and turpentining, is another one of them.

    The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

  • Ultimately, ATFA worked to show that turpentining was an agricultural, not an industrial, process.

    ArchivesBlogs 2009

  • Neither, when the door was opened, did the inside appear to belie the outward promise, as there was faded carpeting on the stairs and faded oil – cloth in the passage; in addition to which discomforts a gentleman Ruler was smoking hard in the front parlour (though it was not yet noon), while the lady of the house was busily engaged in turpentining the disjointed fragments of a tent – bedstead at the door of the back parlour, as if in preparation for the reception of some new lodger who had been fortunate enough to engage it.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

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