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▪ I. groaning, vbl. n.|ˈgrəʊnɪŋ|
[f. groan v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. groan.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 68 Wununga..on ðam ne ablinþ granung. c1205Lay. 17797 Þer wes muchel waning heortne graning. c1275Serving Christ 28 in O.E. Misc. 91 Þer is gronynge and grure. 1340Ayenb. 264 Þer is groniynge wyþ-oute ende. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. vii. (1495) 417 A culuoure hath gronynge in stede of songe. c1420Anturs of Arth. 620 (Douce MS.) Ho gretes one Gaynour, with gronyng grylle. 1535Coverdale Ps. xxxvii[i]. 9 Lorde, thou knowest all my desyre, & my gronynge is not hyd from the. 1672Wilkins Nat. Relig. 194 Our most secret thoughts and inward groanings are not hid from Him. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Groaning, in heraldry, a term used for the cry or noise of a buck. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxii, I heard a groaning as of one in extreme pain. 1877L. J. Jennings Field Paths & Gr. Lanes 39 The groaning and creaking of its branches..was a distressing sound to hear.
2. A lying-in. Now only dial.
1579[see groaning-time in 3]. [ 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 259.] 1724S. Sewall Diary 9 Jan. (1882) III. 328 She came from a Groaning very cheerfull. 1744Trial Campbell Craig v. Earl Anglesey 5 Was you ever at a Groaning before? I never was. 1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 234 At groanings there are always a little boy and a rattle-snake's skin, the latter of which prevents numbness and the cramp. 1895E. Angl. Gloss., Groaning, a lying-in.
3. attrib., as groaning-time (sense 2); esp. of food and drink provided for attendants and vistors at a lying-in, as groaning-beer, groaning-bread, groaning-cake, groaning-cheese, groaning-drink, groaning-malt, groaning-pie; groaning-chair (see quots. 1886 and 1893); so † groaning-stool.
1677S. Sewall Diary 16 Feb. (1878) I. 36 Brewed my Wives *Groaning Beer.
1893Northumbld. Gloss., *Groanin⁓breed..is the cake provided on the occasion.
a1796Pegge Derbicisms Ser. ii. 103 *Groaning-cake, [cake] given to the assisting women, after the good woman is brought to bed. 1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 71 Caudle and groaning-cake were handed round.
1664J. Wilson Cheats v. i. Dram. Wks. (1874) 86 Enter Boy with a glass and a *groaning chair. 1710Swift Baucis & Phil. 85 The Groaning Chair began to crawl, Like a huge snail, along the wall. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Groaning-Chair. The large chair often found by bedsides. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Groanin-chair, the chair on which the matron is set after a child-birth to receive her gossips and friends.
1636W. Sampson Vow-breaker iv. 1 H, Bring the *groaning cheece and all requisites. 1822Scott Nigel iii, To taste a glass of aniseed, and a bit of the groaning cheese.
1743Annesley Ejectm. Trial in Howell St. Trials (1813) XVII. 1153 Lord Altham said, deponent must dine with him, and come to drink some *groaning-drink, for that his wife was in labour. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Groaning-drink, ale brewed in anticipation of childbirth.
c1780Burns Rantin' Dog ii, Who will buy my *groanin' mawt? 1815Scott Guy M. iii, Meg Merrilies descended to the kitchen to secure her share of the groaning malt.
c1626Dick of Devon. iv. i. in Bullen O.P. ii. 63 Midwives travell at night and are weary with eating *groaning pyes, and yet sleepe not. a1668Davenant News fr. Plym. iv. Dram. Wks. 1873 IV. 171 No matter who's the father, so I have work, And eat the groaning pie.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 196 Let him vnderstand, I more scorne it, than to haue so foule a iakes for my *groaning stole as hys mouth.
1579North Plutarch (1595) 11 When her *groning time was come..she [Ariadne] died..in labour. 1881I. of W. Gloss., Groanin time, the time of a woman's accouchment.
▪ II. groaning, ppl. a.|ˈgrəʊnɪŋ|
[f. groan v. + -ing2.]
That groans, in senses of the vb.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xxxv. (1495) 434 The turture comyth in spryngynge time and warnyth of nouelte of tyme wyth gronynge voyce. 1597R. Bruce Let. in Life (Wodrow) 172 A taste of a groaning and broken spirit. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. ii. 15 What shall be done, Sir, with the groaning Iuliet? Shee's very neere her howre. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 291 The Courser..Inur'd the groaning Axle-tree to bear. 1735Somerville Chase ii. 56 Groaning Staddles bend beneath their Load. 1814Scott Wav. xxx, Ye cut-lugged graning carles. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 170 The sweet groaning thunder of the organ. 1898Edin. Rev. Oct. 417 The cattle ploughed or turned groaning waterwheels.
Proverb.1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 49 A gronyng horse, and a gronyng wyfe, Neuer fayle their maister.
†b. groaning-board (see quot. 1673–4).
1673–4Grew Anat. Plants iii. ii. vii. §7 (1682) 138 The Planks commonly called Groaning-Boards, lately exposed, as a kind of Prodigy..were of Elm. The Aer-Vessels of this Wood, being..more ample, than in any other Timber..upon the application of the Red-hot-Iron..every vessel became, as it were a little Wind-Pipe..a great many of these Pipes playing together, might make a kind of big or groaning noyse. 1710Steele & Addison Tatler No. 257 ⁋2 There was an Organ, a Bagpipe, a Groaning-Board. |