Dial \Di"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dialedor 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)