ricing

noun — 2 senses

ricing

noun

1

(Development of) undesirable, hard white granules in soap.

Fragrances can mutate; seizure and ricing are more common; and the soap batter traces rapidly.2012, Alicia Grosso, The Everything Soapmaking Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
Sometimes accompanied by acceleration, ricing is different in that it creates small individual clumps of soap that look like rice granules.2016, Anne-Marie Faiola, Pure Soapmaking, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 14:

2

The act of harvesting wild rice.

[…] harvest wild rice with their families in other areas of the Great Lakes region. In 1939, the year Minnesota harvesters were required to purchase ricing licenses, a number of women harvested rice at Portage Lake and Perch Lake in central[…]2012 February 16, Brenda J. Child, Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community, Penguin, →ISBN:

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