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English Dictionary: dialling by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dial \Di"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dialed}or {Dialled}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Dialing} or {Dialling}.]
      1. To measure with a dial.
  
                     Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven.
                                                                              --Talfourd.
  
      2. (Mining) To survey with a dial. --Raymond.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dialing \Di"al*ing\, n.
      1. The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of
            measuring time by dials. [Written also {dialling}.]
  
      2. A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the
            bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make
            with each other, are determined by means of the
            circumferentor.
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