dial. [f. STEEK v.3 + -ING1.]

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  1.  The action of the verb; stitching; also concr. and attrib.

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1561.  Invent. R. Wardr. (1815), 140. With a cordoun of gold upoun the sticking maid in broderie.

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1568.  in G. Chalmers, Mary Q. Scots (1818), I. 285, note. 2 lb. wgt. of fyne steiking silk £12. 16. 0.

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18[?].  Gay Goss-Hawk, xx. in Aytoun, Sc. Ballads (1858), I. 180. The claith of it was satin fine, The steeking silken wark.

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  2.  transf. in Mining. = STICKING vbl. sb.

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1789.  J. Williams, Min. Kingd., I. 301. A thin strake or seam of clay betwixt the rider and the side or sides of the vein, which miners call a steeking.

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1894.  Northumbld. Gloss., Steekin o’ clay, a thin strake or infiltration of clay in a rock fissure.

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