sanding

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of sand

Noun

• The act or process by which something is sanded; the application of sandpaper, etc.
• A type of dancing where the floor is covered in sand. See Sanding (dance).
• The process of testing the surface of gilding, after it has been fired, with fine sand and water.
• The process of burying oysters in sand.
• The process of applying sand to rails in railway track to aid adhesion.

Origin

• From sand + -ing.
• From Middle English sanding, sandyng, equivalent to sand + -ing.