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earing en · NOUN
Pronunciation
/ˈɪəɹɪŋ/
Meanings
A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff.
A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard.
You've forgot to pass the tack-earing, but wid time and help ye'll larn. There's good and just reason for ivry rope aboard, or else 'twould be overboard. D'ye follow me? 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
A manufacturing defect in which the edges of sheet metal form a wave pattern during deep drawing.
(archaic) A ploughing of land.
For these two yeeres hath the famine bene in the land: and yet there are fiue yeeres, in the which there shall neither be earing nor haruest. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 45:6:
Sixe dayes thou shalt worke, but on the seuenth day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in haruest thou shalt rest. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 34:21:
(archaic, rare) An earring.
Gustave. (Gets up.) What? I believe you are wearing my earings yet! 1910, August Strindberg, translated by Francis Joseph Ziegler, The Creditor, page 96: