vbl. sb. Also 8 trinding. [f. TREND v. + -ING1.] The action of TREND v.
† 1. Turning round, revolution, rotation. Obs.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., IX. i. (Tollem. MS.). Meuynge haþ cause firste and principally of trendynge [1535 trendlynge] aboute of heuen. Ibid., XI. x. Of his longe trendynge [1535 trendlynge] aboute comeþ his roundnesse.
b. The winding of wool in a top: see TREND v. 2 b. dial.
1794. Young’s Ann. Agric., XXVI. 455. [I] send you, by Drew, a trinded top of wool … with the locks left out of it at trinding.
2. The fact or manner of turning, bending away, or taking a general (specified) direction, as a coast-line, etc.; general direction, trend.
1600. Hakluyt, Voy., III. A ij. For the space of fiue thousand leagues … considering the trending of the land.
1697. Dryden, Æneid, VII. 200. The Coasts and Trendings of the Crooked Shore.
1770. Cook, Voy. round World, III. i. (1773), 484. This point … may be known by the trending of the coast, which is north on the one side, and south-west on the other.
1823. Scoresby, Jrnl. Whale Fish., 472. Trending differs from bearing, inasmuch as it is … the direction of a coast or line of ice in regard to itself; whereas the bearing usually refers to the direction of an object, in regard to the place of an observer.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea, II. xvi. 222. The trending away of the hills leaves a hollow or recess.
† b. The action of continuing a course. Obs.
1647. G. Tooke, Belides, 30. As a streame descending From his faire heads to sea, becomes in trending More puissant.
