couchings

Noun

couching (plural couchings)

1. The act of one who couches.
   • Couching involves transferring the sheet of paper from the mould to the felt.2003, Josep Asunción, The Complete Book of Papermaking, New York, N.Y.: Lark Books, →ISBN, page 80
   1. An early, largely obsolete, method of treating a cataract by using a sharp object to displace the opaque lens in the eye.
      • [C]ataract surgery has been employed for more than 20 centuries. The primary surgical technique for the large majority of this time was a procedure called couching. The first written description of couching is from an Indian surgeon, Susruta, circa 600 BC, involving the insertion of a needle into...2006, Sanduk Ruit, Geoffrey C. Tabin, Charles C. Wykoff, “Cataract Surgery”, in Fighting Global Blindness: Improving World Vision through Cataract Elimination, Washington, D.C.: American Public...
   2. Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.