1987 Re: TN3270 in comp.protocols.tcp-ip (Usenet newsgroup) 3 June Would it help to skew the peering so that sites on the east peered with bbnnet2, and so on?

1995 Internet World Aug. 27/1 If a large national Internet access provider is approached by a small regional provider to enter into a private bilateral peering agreement to exchange Internet traffic, one can imagine the bigger provider refusing..on the grounds that there is little to gain.

2002 D. Verton Hacker Diaries iii. 68 The..technicians noticed that a large number of their peering circuits—the major national ISPs with which they share data—were unwittingly taking part in the attacks.

1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 42^v For little signes are knowne full well, where great affection is. And eke of peering sparke, doth growe a flashing flame.

1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 16 The ten bags of tea, and the cargo of brandy, them peering rascals took from me in Sussex, has quite broken my back.

1802 Noble Wanderers II. 83 A tender plant, whose peering blossoms have been blighted by some chilling blast.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 236 Down on the sea-farers did he gaze now With curious peering eyes.

1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train ii. i. 9 Soon he could see of those who passed no more than unrelated features, a peering angry eye, a dress of mauve silk, a clerical collar.

1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xii. 90 The man who answered her was sharp-faced and smiling and had an alert, peering sort of way with his eyes.

1814 F. Burney Wanderer III. lviii. 404 Miss Brinville peeringly approached, to verify the whisper of Selina, exclaiming, ‘Dear! what makes poor Sir Jaspar stoop so?’

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career I. viii. 115 An Austrian sentinel looked on passively, and a police inspector peeringly.

1992 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 1 Dec. e1 She gazed peeringly at her father and spoke verbally to him.