GASSING • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Gassing

... are you chaps gassing about anyway?" demanded Barney Hedge, who was growing tired of ...

— Guns And Snowshoes • Captain Ralph Bonehill

... linen, or silk fiber. Because cotton is a cheaper material than any of these it is often mixed with them to produce cheaper goods. You would be amazed to see how ingenious manufacturers have become in turning out such imitations. Cotton, for example, is mercerized by passing it very rapidly through a gassing machine not unlike the flame of a Bunsen burner. Here all the fuzz protruding from it is burned away, and when polished and finished it looks so much like silk you would have trouble in telling whether it was or not. This sort of yarn is used to make imitation ...

— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett