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▪ I. loaning, vbl. n.|ˈləʊnɪŋ| [f. loan v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. loan; lending.
1740Connect. Col. Rec. (1874) VIII. 360 The committee for the loaning the said bills are to take notice hereof. 1889Pall Mall G. 3 Dec. 6/2 The President proceeds to condemn the loaning of public funds to banks without interest. 1901N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 261 The excessive loaning of a bank's funds to its officers and directors. ▪ II. loaning, n. Sc. and north.|ˈləʊnɪŋ| Forms: 4–5 lon(n)yng(e, 6–7 loning, 8 lownin, 9–lonnin(g, 7– loaning. [f. loan n.2 + -ing1.] 1. = loan n.2 1. † free loaning: a right of way.
1324MS. Charter (penes W. Greenwell of Durham), Le Lonnynge quod ducit usque Charlawe. 1370Durham Halm. Rolls (Surtees) 60 Injunctum est omnibus tenentibus quod faciant les lonyngs. 1475Extracts Burgh Rec. Peebles (1872) I. 175 Accepand a fre lonyng throw the sayde auche to Glentras as efferis to the town to haf of law. 1502Will in Ripon Ch. Acts 356 Brakan more lonyng. 1597Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) 341 To the loning that lyethe betwex Lumley parke paile and Lamb felds. 1610N. Riding Rec. I. 199 For not repayring the loning betwene Earbie and West Ronckton. 1808R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 23 In dark winter neeghts i' the lonnins. 1832Act. 2 & 3 Will. IV, c. 65 §5 Any distance to be measured along any street, lane, or loaning. 1849F. T. Dinsdale Gloss. Teesdale 81 It's a lang lonnin that has nivver a turn. 1862M'Cosh Supernatural i. v. 92 We steal away thro' some green loaning. 1893Crockett Stickit Minister 114 Leaning on the gate at the head of the loaning. 1896F. M. T. Palgrave List Words Hetton-le-Hole 29 Lonning, ‘laning’, i.e. lane... ‘We find swiney up Mousely (Moorsley) lonen.’—Extract from boy's essay on Wild Flowers. 1933Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Apr. 243/2 This is for those whose feet leave the road at the first chance and strike up through lonnins and intakes to untrodden ground. 1971Country Life 9 Sept. 630/1 We came to the lonnin that turns away from the river and leads beside the church towards the dale road. 2. = loan n.2 2.
c1750Miss Elliot Song, The Flowers of the Forest i, But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. ii, See not a Dulcinea in every slipshod girl, who drives..out the village cows to the loaning. 1882J. Walker Jaunt to Auld Reekie, etc. 38 Crummies rootin up the loanin' Wi weel-filled baggies. 3. attrib., as loaning-end; loaning-dike, a wall dividing the arable land from the pasture.
1383Durham Halm. Rolls (Surtees) 177 De ten. villæ quia noluerunt facere le lonyngdiks juxta Bishoplaw. 1596Reg. Mag. Sig. (1890) 160/2, 6 rudas terrarum..inter..lie Ovir Frankland ex australi, lie loning-dyke ex occidentali. 1895Crockett Men of Moss Hags xxxv. 256 Every day the old man passed this loaning-end. |