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▪ I. ˈrobbing, vbl. n.
[f. rob v.]
1. The action of rob vb.; spoliation, robbery. Also attrib.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiv. 301 Ȝe, þorw þe pas of altoun Pouerte myȝte passe with-oute peril of robbynge. c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 26 All þe contreys about dyuelyn, wyth robynge & bernyng & sleyng, weren neght I-broght to noght. 1465Paston Lett. II. 251 The chyff maysters of robbyng was the Baylly of Ey, [etc.]. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 20 Preamble, The same mysgoverned persons shall lyf in robbyng and mysgovernaunce duryng ther lyves. 1591Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 119 It is very ill in all demandes, but such as concerne..robbing, rifling, spoiling. 1665Pepys Diary 21 Sept., I rode in some fear of robbing. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. (1776) 62 There is no travelling upon the road for robbing. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v Bee, This subject of the Bees robbing of one another. 1831Insect Misc. (L.E.K.) 329 The robbing season..occurs sooner or later as the summer has been more or less favourable.
b. With a and pl. = robbery 1 b.
c1220Bestiary 792 Ilc robbinge do we of bac. 1340Ayenb. 39 Zuyche reuen, prouost, bedeles,..þet makeþ þe greate robbynges. c1460Contin. Brut (1908) 518 Also, At which robbyng diuerse men of London..wer.., & toke part with him. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 405 Spoylynges and robbinges of townes. 1657Divine Lover 300 The tediousnesse of the way, beatinges, robbings, and the like are but necessarie Mortifications. 1693Mem. Cnt. Teckely ii. 103 The War was more like a tumultuous Robbing than a War manag'd with prudence.
†2. concr. Plunder, booty. In quot. pl. Obs.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 4730 (Kölbing), Þis four heþen kinges Went, to loken þis robbeings.
▪ II. ˈrobbing, ppl. a.
[f. rob v.]
That robs; thieving, predatory.
1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 334 The robbing Bee and the Waspe..will without strife or difference concurre together to rob a hive of Bees. 1886Lett. Donegal 54 There need then have been no fear that the robbing scoundrels..would have escaped punishment.
▪ III. robbing
obs. form of robing. |