surfacing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of surface

noun

1. Material used to make a surface.

   “asphalt road surfacings”

2. The act of coming above the surface.

   “The researchers measured the number of surfacings per minute by each dolphin.”

   “I practice nightly, I try to keep ahead. / This art of surfacing is all but dead.”