† wainingn.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
(See quots.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun]
eartheOE
earingOE
ploughing1374
fallowing1426
labouragec1475
ardagh1483
eara1500
fallowa1500
arder1581
waining1585
stitch1600
caruage1610
furrow1610
till1647
aration1663
bouting1733
breast-ploughing1754
prairie-breaking1845
sodbusting1965
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 385/2 Versura,..the waining or turning at ye lands end, where one furrow endeth and another beginneth.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Reversure
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