Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dialing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dial \Di"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dialed}or {Dialled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Dialing} or {Dialling}.]
1. To measure with a dial.
Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven.
--Talfourd.
2. (Mining) To survey with a dial. --Raymond.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dialing \Di"al*ing\, n.
1. The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of
measuring time by dials. [Written also {dialling}.]
2. A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the
bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make
with each other, are determined by means of the
circumferentor.
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