vbl. sb. [f. BOND v. + -ING1.]
1. Building. The binding or connecting together (bricks, stones, or parts of a structure) by making them overlap and hold together; also, binding or strengthening by means of bonders.
1677. Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 257. The well-working and bonding of Brick-walls conduces very much to their strength.
1879. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., II. 36. The bonding of [pilaster strips] by alternate vertical & horizontal stones.
b. attrib.
1852. T. Wright, Celt, Roman & Saxon, v. 158. The Roman bricks, or tiles,… were built in as bonding courses.
1864. Birmingham Daily Post, 10 Oct., 6/3 A [Roman] wall of great strength, consisting of regular ashlar, alternating with rows of bonding tiles.
1884. Health Exhib. Catal., 93/2. Bonding Bricks for hollow walls.
2. The action of pledging under bond to the repayment of money borrowed.
1877. Burroughs, Taxation, 407. The assent of the majority of the tax-payers to the bonding of the town.
3. The storing of goods in bond; hence bonding-house, -warehouse.
1865. Draper, Intell. Devel. Europe, iv. 96. This implied an extensive system of depôts and bonding.
1863. Fawcett, Pol. Econ., IV. iii. (1876), 552. Bonding-houses offer great … advantages to those who import taxed commodities.
