Definition of "turpentining" []

• The process or business of obtaining resin or crude turpentine from living pine-trees. Also called turpentine orcharding, turpentine tapping. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And now, working in my rooms, white-leading and turpentining, is another one of them."
• "Of the men who did the turpentining and white-leading there have been four."
• "Many destructive fires also follow turpentining, so that on the whole the turpentine industry is responsible for the destruction each year of large areas of the southern pine forests."