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▪ I. † ˈearing, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. ear v.1 + -ing.]
The action of ploughing; a ploughing. Also attrib., as in earing-time.
c1440Promp. Parv. 141 Eryynge of londe, aracio. 1580Baret Alv. E 15 The first earing, or tilth of land. 1611Bible Ex. xxxiv. 21 In earing time and in haruest thou shalt rest. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 537 Wheat or mesling especially doe desire to haue three earings before they bee sowne.
▪ II. ˈearing, vbl. n.2
[f. ear v.2]
The process of coming into ear. Also concr. (see quot. 1750).
a1547T. Key Erasm. Par. Mark (1548) iv. 17 It widdered awaye before it came to earing. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 41 Many grains are lost which come not to sprouting or earing. 1750W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. III. i. 27 (E.D.S.) The shoot or earing of young wheat.
▪ III. earing, n. Naut.|ˈɪərɪŋ|
Also 7–9 earring.
[? f. ear n.1 + -ing1; possibly however = earring. (See quot. 1627.)]
‘One of a number of small ropes employed to fasten the upper corner of a sail to the yard’ (Adm. Smyth). Also attrib.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 15 The trusses, the lifts, the earring, the cat harpings. 1627― Seaman's Gram. v. 23 The Earing is that part of the bunt rope which at all the foure corners of the saile is left open as it were a ring. 1762–9Falconer Shipw. ii. 153 The weather-earings and the lee they past. 1774Westm. Mag. II. 429 We're all Macaronies from earing to clue. 1840R. Dana Bef. Mast iv. 9 Our new second mate used to..have the weather earing passed before there was a man upon the yard. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 19 Head earring strops [are] used..For hauling out and securing the head earrings. Ibid. 45 The head earrings [are] handed up to the earing men on the yard. Ibid. 46 The first and second reef earrings. |