different between nettling vs netting

English

Verb

nettling

1. present participle of nettle

Noun

nettling (countable and uncountable, plural nettlings)

1. (ropemaking) A process, resembling splicing, by which two ropes are joined so as to form one rope.
2. The process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.
3. The process of stinging somebody with nettles.
   • 2000, Harriet Whitehead, Food Rules: Hunting, Sharing, and Tabooing Game in Papua New Guinea

     Their greater male strength will be both tested and attested to in their ability to undergo the initiation nettlings, beatings, and burnings administered to them by the older initiators […]

English

Etymology 1

From net +? -ing.

Noun

netting (countable and uncountable, plural nettings)

1. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
   • 1673, John Dryden, Amboyna

     Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare

   • January 1965, U.S. Army Air Defense Digest (U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas), page 44 (part of chapter 3, Army Air Defense Control Systems) (PDF: cover, contents, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3):

     The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. [...] Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar.

Synonyms

• mesh

Etymology 2

From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear.

Noun

netting (uncountable)

1. (Britain, dialect, dated) urine

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 3

From net +? -ing.

Verb

netting

1. present participle of net

Anagrams

• tenting, tingent