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harrying, vbl. n.|ˈhærɪɪŋ|
Forms: see the vb.
[OE. herᵹung, f. herᵹian to harry: see -ing1.]
Warlike incursion; devastation, laying waste; ravaging, plundering, raiding.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. ix. [xi.] (1890) 42 Seo herᵹung wæs þurh Alaricum Gotena cyning ᵹeworden. c1000O.E. Chron. an. 994 (Earle) 132 note, Hi..worhton þæt mæste yfel.. on bærnette and hereᵹunge and on man slyhtum. a1250Prov. ælfred 90 in O.E. Misc. 108 To werie þat lond wiþ hunger and wiþ herivnge. 1557–75Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne) 194 The hereing of Bothuile Mure. 1871Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. viii. 216 The coasts of Britain..desolated by their harryings. |