[-ING1.] The action of TOSS v. in various senses. Also with adv.
1557. [see TOSS v. 3 b].
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 367. The other … stirreth vp tossinges, wamlings, windinesse, and vomiting.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, II. (Sommer), 173. When Basilius after long tossing was gotten a sleepe.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., III. x. 174. Like the tossing of a pike, which is … to shew the strength and nimblenesse of the arm.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 63, ¶ 1. The Tossings and Fluctuations of the Sea.
1801. Sporting Mag., XIX. 115. No cards, dice, odd-horse or tossing-up to be permitted.
b. attrib.: † tossing iron, some cooking utensil; tossing-pan, a pan for tossing food in cooking.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Woman’s Prize, II. v. They heave ye stool on stool, and fling main pot-lids Like massy rocks, dart ladles, tossing irons And tongs like thunder-bolts.
1769. Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 75. Put them all in your tossing-pan, and shake it over the fire till it boils, then put in your woodcock.
1796. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, v. 47. Put it into a tossing-pan with a tea-spoonful of lemon-pickle.
