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feeing, vbl. n. dial. and Sc.|ˈfiːɪŋ|
[f. fee v.1]
The hiring of servants for a fee. feeing market, hiring market; a general semi-annual gathering of farm hands for the purpose of hiring themselves out for the next six months.
1865W. H. L. Tester Poems 127 I'll tell ye a' About the Friday's feein'. 1875W. Alexander Sks. Life among my Ain Folk 220 On the feeing market night he had taken Baubie home to Briggies'. 1891A. Gordon Folks o' Carglen iii. 66 In the little town of Kail..there were three great hiring markets for farm-labourers in the course of the year. These were the ‘feein' Friday’,..‘hairst Monday’... By ten or eleven o'clock a huge concourse of people anxious to be ‘feed’..had assembled. 1897Westm. Gaz. 29 May 10/1 The Inverness Feeing Market the other day..was like a military pageant... The recruiting sergeants were alert and busy. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Dec. 1086/3 Hawked at fairs and feeing⁓markets. |