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ˈfeering, vbl. n.
[f. feer v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. feer; also attrib.
1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 248 The feering of a gathered ridge. 1862J. Wilson Farming vi. 206 This feiring is only required when a process of fallowing..has obliterated the former ridges. Ibid., The ploughman..erects his three or more feiring poles perfectly in line, at a distance from the fence equal to half the width of the ridges or spaces in which it is proposed to plough the field.
b. concr. One of the rectangular spaces of land between the furrows; a land.
1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 257 Spaces for ploughing, called feerings, of generally thirty yards in width are marked off. 1851Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. i. 125 In Scotland the land is ploughed..in broad feirings of various dimensions. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Feerings, spaces of ploughed land from eight to more yards in width. |