The Collaborative International Dictionary
Floating \Float"ing\, n.
(Weaving) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
The second coat of three-coat plastering.
--Knight.The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fattening, plumping, and laying out.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is plumped. vb. (present participle of plump English)
WordNet
adj. very large; of exceptional size for its kind; "won by a plumping majority"
Wikipedia
Plumping, also referred to as “enhancing” or “injecting,” is a term that describes the process by which some poultry companies inject raw chicken meat with saltwater, chicken stock, seaweed extract or some combination thereof. The practice is most commonly used for fresh chicken and is also used in frozen poultry products, although other meats may also be plumped.
Poultry producers have injected chicken (and other meats) with saltwater solutions since the 1970s, claiming it makes for tastier, juicier meat. According to Kenneth McMillin, Professor of Meat Science at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center in Baton Rouge, processors use multiple-needle injectors or vacuum-tumblers, that force the sodium solution into the muscle. Binding agents in the solution prevent the added salt and water from leaching out of the meat during transport, in grocery stores and during cooking.
Usage examples of "plumping".
Nothing mattered but the oxygen flooding through his chest, plumping up his shriveled cells like raisins soaked in water.
While the currants were plumping up, I measured dry ingredients into the Hydes' food processor.
Large warrior hands massaged each engorged breast, plucking and plumping up her nipples.
The maid had done a thorough job and as Daphne hadn't yet returned from one of her long weekends at Harcourt Hall there was little for her to do other than plumping up the odd cushion and drawing the curtains.
There was an instant of strained silence before they threw up their rifles and fired a plumping volley at the foes.
I will lie awake for hours on end, incessantly checking my watch, plumping and punching my pillow, thrashing and turning on my mattress as if wrestling a foe, before sleep at last whelms over me only to subside a minute later when I am disturbed by the slightest noise or provoked by the jagged shard of an unremembered dream.