steeping

See also: Steeping

English

Etymology 1

Verb

steeping

1. present participle and gerund of steep

Noun

steeping (countable and uncountable, plural steepings)

1. An instance of something being steeped; a wetting.
   • 1838, George Adolphus Wigney, An Elementary Dictionary, Or, Cyclopaediae, for the Use of Maltsters, Brewers &c., page 28:

     It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings […]

Etymology 2

From the name of Stephen de Fulbourn, who served as bishop of Waterford, archbishop of Tuam, and treasurer and justiciar of Ireland in the 1270s and 1280s.

Alternative forms

• stephening, steping

Noun

steeping (plural steepings)

2. (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin circulated in Ireland as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under King Edward I.

Synonyms

• Bishop's money, scalding, stalding

Related terms

• (13th-c. counterfeit coin): pollard, rosary, mitre, leonine, crockard, eagle