Earing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Earing	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Earing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ear \Ear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Earing}.] To take in with the ears; to hear. [Sportive] [bd]I eared her language.[b8] --Two Noble Kinsmen.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Earing \Ear"ing\, n. (Naut.) (a) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called {head earing}. (b) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing. (c) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Earing \Ear"ing\, n. Coming into ear, as corn.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Earing \Ear"ing\, n. A plowing of land. [Archaic] Neither earing nor harvest. --Gen. xlv. 6.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Earing an Old English word (from the Latin aro, I plough), meaning "ploughing." It is used in the Authorized Version in Gen. 45:6; Ex. 34:21; 1 Sam. 8:12; Deut. 21:4; Isa. 30:24; but the Revised Version has rendered the original in these places by the ordinary word to plough or till.