1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 349 Take two buttock pieces or as they are also call'd two rearing pieces of pork (these are the lean that is cut off the gammon on the inside of the flitch).

1740 E. Purefoy Let. 31 Jan. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) i. 203 I desire your acceptance of a spare ribb, a rearing, a little chine, a couple of Pulletts, & a Goose.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 396 The meat taken out of a flitch of bacon, when the ham is left in: in other words the fleshy part of the leg, which instead of being cut out smoothly, as a round of beef, is raised or lifted with one hand, whilst it is cut out with the other. For a similar reason it is often called the rearing.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Rearing of Pork,..the loin of a porkling pig.

1845 Sporting Mag. Jan. 36 A rearing-bit or a fixed martingale are most decidedly out of character in the hunting field.

1937 D. Conyers in G. Winter Horseman's Week-end Bk. 145 He had to be ridden in a rearing bit to the meets, with his evil eye set sullenly as he recognized defeat.

2004 Townsville (Queensland, Austral.) Bull. (Nexis) 31 July 41 A steward caught five trainers who led their horses from their float on to the course without having clipped the rearing bit to the head collar.

1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms 139/2 Rearing-bone, the hip-bone of a hog, by means of which the animal is enabled to rear, or raise himself up. Hants.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Rearing-bone, the hip-bone of a pig.

1796 Aris's Birmingham Gaz. 30 Jan. in Birmingham Post (2000) (Nexis) 22 Jan. 54 On Saturday last the Rearing Feast of the new foundry..was given to the engine-smiths and all the other workmen employed in the erection.

1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 56 They'll have the ruff on at Appleford to-day, you: bean't you gwyne to the rearen feast.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 243/2 Reearin'-feeast, the old word for a house-warming party, which used to be held when the last tile or bundle of thatch went up on the roof.

1824 J. H. Barlow Hatching Poultry by Steam 15 The Rearing House is of the same size and dimensions as the Hatching House, in which Fowls are kept until they are three weeks or a month old.

1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 578 A disease which appeared in South France nearly thirty years ago and attacked the silk worms with much virulence, is also a case in point... This disease appeared in the rearing houses in great violence in 1854.

1948 L. Robinson Mod. Poultry Husb. xi. 227 When growing stock are first placed in arks or other types of range rearing-house, a temporary run of wire netting should be erected.

1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 549 Laborde..established a rearing house for silkworm with an annual output of 200 kilograms of raw silk.

1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. 75 A house is reared when the wood-work of the roof is raised upon it. The workmen employed in building a new house have a rearing-supper when arrived at this stage of their labour.

1867 B. Brierley Marlocks of Merriton (E.D.D.) 113 He cannot even build a house, but there must be the ‘rearing’ supper.

1965 R. Blumenau Hist. Malvern Coll. 1865–1965 8 Eighty workmen walked in procession to the Belle Vue Hotel for the traditional gargantuan rearing supper to celebrate the laying of the roof-timbers.

1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea (new ed.) iii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 129 Rearing rocks with thundring noise the flapping waues do beate.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 147 If it be a rearing mine or edg-coal as some call it, cuting the superficies of the earth at right angles.

1740 R. Erskine Fountain-head All Blessings 13 How comes it, that there is..such a Flowing of the raging, rearing Tide of Corruption, as Grace cannot be seen?

1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 254 Rearing to approach the rearing foe, Their wavy manes are dash'd with foamy snow.

1816 L. Hunt Hero & Leander ii. 65 Surmounted like a god the rearing tide.

1851 Rural Cycl. IV. 29 A viciously rearing horse..is sometimes dealt with by being pulled over backward by a rider.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 533 A yoke of buckets leopards all over him and his rearing nag.

1946 C. Fry Firstborn iii. ii. 97 Storm-riding souls and rearing spirit.

2007 Financial Times (Nexis) 20 Apr. 11 Panthers, pigs, goats, snakes, girls, gods and rearing horses of luminous white marble embellish a Roman sarcophagus.

1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. 328 The number of cows kept, even by the rearing-farmers, is few.

a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. xvi. 341 Instead of..flying about..to buy a lot of beasts from the small rearing farmers,..our Highland proprietors rear large stocks of young cattle.

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 119/1 A Rearing Mother for the artificial rearing of the chickens.

1922 Times 16 May 17/6 The breeding and rearing farmers..wish to exclude Canadian cattle.

1980 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 45 862 There is insufficient information on the natural fathers and on the occupational prestige of employed, rearing mothers.

2007 North Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Mar. 35 This will affect the South West's rearing farmers, who farm mainly beef animals and sell them at between 9 and 12 months.

1904 Paducah (Kentucky) Sun 31 May Sporting Ben Boyd is rearing to go with his string of cracks [i.e. crack players].

1947 H. Walsh Fourth Point of Star 34 I am rearing to talk this business over with her.

2000 S. McKay Northern Protestants 59 He was rearing to go, to sort things out in the old style.