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▪ I. queening, n.|ˈkwiːnɪŋ|
Also 5 quenyng, 7 queenen.
[? f. queen n. + -ing3.]
A variety of apple. Cf. winter-queening.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 15 Eke the frutis wiche more comon be, Quenyngez, pechis, costardes, etiam wardons. 1635Quarles Embl. v. ii. (1818) 262 'Tis not the lasting deuzan I require, Nor yet the red-cheeked queening. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. iii. 48 The Queening, is a fair red striped Apple, and beautiful in its Season, being a kind of Winter Fruit. 1698M. Lister Journ. Paris (1699) 194 It was the White Queenen (or Calvil d'Este) the Stem of the bigness only of my Thumb. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Queening, a fine-flavoured sweet apple, common in the cider-orchards.
▪ II. queening, vbl. n.|ˈkwiːnɪŋ|
[f. queen v. + -ing1.]
The action of queening a pawn in chess. Also attrib. in queening square, the square on a chess board on which a particular pawn may be queened.
1860Staunton Chess Praxis iv. 41 The spirit of the modern game is to regard the Queening of a Pawn as the highest feat a player can accomplish. 1922A. Emery Elements of Chess iv. 32 Under no circumstances whatever can a solitary pawn on either rook's file be advanced to the queening square, if it is possible for the adverse king to take up a position in front of it on the same file. 1937M. Euwe Strategy & Tactics in Chess viii. 168 In choosing the queening square Black takes care that, at all cost, the White Rook is standing on the adjacent file. 1966New Statesman 9 Sept. 371/3 The draw is secured either by stalemate or by perpetuating the Black Bishop's command of the queening square. 1969A. Glyn Dragon Variation ii. 58 If he takes your Knight now, you play Pawn on and then Queen it, and his own Pawn protects the queening square from his Bishop. |
