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True v. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. True v. [f. TRUE a.]

1   † 1.  trans. To prove true, verify. Obs. rare–1.

2 1647.  Ward, Simp. Cobler (1843), 81. Easilier told than tryed or trued.

3   2.  To make true, as a piece of mechanism or the like; to place, adjust, or shape accurately; to give the precise required form or position to; to make accurately or perfectly straight, level, round, smooth, sharp, etc., as required. Often with up.

4 1841.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., IV. 234/1. An apparatus for ‘truing up’ the wheels of carriages and engines on railways.

5 1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Marble-finishing Machine, one for truing and molding the edges of marble slabs for mantels, tables, etc.

6 1881.  Greener, Gun, 267. The common barrels are done at half the cost of the best … by grinding them without turning and trueing them in the lathe.

7 1888.  Hasluck, Model Engin. Handybk. (1900), 84. The next thing is to true up the valve-face on the cylinder.

8   Hence Truing vbl. sb. (also attrib.).

9 1851–4.  Tomlinson, Cycl. Arts (1867), II. 40/1. The trueing of the lenses … being completed, the polishing is next proceeded with.

10 1877.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Truing-tool, a device for truing the face of a grindstone, or any other surface.

11 1897.  A. C. Pemberton, et al. Complete Cyclist, iii. 82. [The jointless’ rim] takes even less trueing than a good wood rim.

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