vbl. sb. Also steaning, steining. [f. STEEN v. + -ING1.]
1. concr. The lining of a well or other excavation.
1767. Ann. Reg., Chron., 56/1. The steining [of the well] fel in upon him and inclosed him at the bottom.
1783. Phil. Trans., LXXIV. 13. A brick steening, of two bricks thick in tarris, [was] raised gradually towards the top of the well.
1898. F. Davis, Silchester, 40. They [the wells] were mostly lined with a flint steining as far as the water.
2. dial. a. A paved ford across a river.
1838. Holloway, Prov. Dict., Steaning.
1887. S. H. A. Hervey, in Wedmore Chron., I. 288 (E.D.D.). Here I suppose was once a stream; and they crossed it by a stenning.
b. (See quot.)
1886. W. Somerset Word-bk., Steening,… 2. The metal fresh laid on a road.
