[f. prec. sb.] trans. To treat, rub, or smear with turpentine or turpentine oil. Hence Turpentined ppl. a. So Turpentining vbl. sb., the process of obtaining crude turpentine from living pine-trees (Cent. Dict. Supp., 1909).
1759. N. Jersey Archives, XX. 374. Stolen … A Battoe … painted with Spanish Brown in the Inside, and the Outsides turpentined.
1789. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Subj. for Painters, 110. Fir’d like turpentin’d poor roasting rats.
1836. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Old Lady. The table-covers are never taken off, except when the leaves are turpentined and bees’-waxed.
1893. Spons’ Mechanics’ Own Bk. (ed. 4), 433. Put in others with the second marbling colour, also on a turpentined feather.
