egg-crating
See also: eggcrating and egg crating
English
Verb
egg-crating
- present participle of egg-crate
Noun
egg-crating (uncountable)
- Alternative form of egg crate
- textured surface or insert.
- 1952, Light and Lighting and Environmental Design:
- The soffit over the windows and arcade is of uninterrupted egg-crating.
- 1953, American Lumberman & Building Products Merchandiser:
- Spotlights in egg-crating over counters give dramatic emphasis to cabinets at night.
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- style of roof
- 1961, Bromeliad Society, Bulletin - Volumes 11-15, page 46:
- For the egg-crating, 2x4's proved adequate, as likely they would have for the wall railing; but greater leaway was provided and proved fortunate since there was a slight pitch from the house roof to the wall.
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- textured surface or insert.
- A plastic mat of horizontal and vertical strips that form squares with holes in the centers.
- 1986, The Indoor Garden - Volumes 23-26:
- These little plants that I top-water sit on egg-crating which is atop a capillary mat.
- 2002, African Violet Magazine - Volume 55, page 50:
- Matting offers the same type of benefit, as does egg-crating.
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- (boating) The process of strengthening a hull by multiple support points.
- 1989, Lakeland Boating - Volume 44, page 100:
- While the hull of the Viking 57 is still curing in the mold, about two weeks into the boat building schedule, workmen install the engine compartment bulkheads and the ' 'egg-crating' ' members, the interlocked wooden framework running fore-and-aft and athwartships.
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