earingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈɪərɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɪ(ə)rɪŋ/

Forms:

α. Old English eriung, Middle English eriing, Middle English eriynge, Middle English eryyng, Middle English eryynge.

β. Middle English ering (in copy of Old English charter), Middle English eringe, Middle English erynge, Middle English heryng, Middle English (2000s– archaic) eryng, 1500s earinge, 1500s– earing.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ear v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < ear v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

Now rare (archaic and regional).

The action of ploughing; (also) an instance of this, a ploughing. Also attributive, as earing-land, earing-time.

ΘΚΠ

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

OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 45 Aratio, eriung.

c1300 ( Will of Ketel (Sawyer 1519) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1848) VI. 200 Ðat eringlond [c1275 erninglond] ðat Ælfwold mine man haueð hunder hande.

a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 284 (MED) Eriynge [glossing Fr. arure].

a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 694 (MED) Eriinglond [glossing Fr. tere arable].

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 1228 (MED) The ferste craft of plowh tilinge, Of Eringe, and of corn sowinge.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 141 Eryynge of londe, aracio.

c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 175 (MED) In erynges, cariages, Medesutes, Mowynges, and all other Seruages.

a1500 Walter of Henley's Husbandry (Sloane) (1890) 45 (MED) Þe firste day off erynge, falowinge & sowynge.

1530 Bible (Tyndale) i. xxi. f. 37 Let them bringe her vnto a valeye where is nether earinge nor sowenge.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie E 13 The first earing or tilthe of lande.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. ix. 672 Wheate or mesling especiallie, do desire to haue three earings, before they be sowen.

1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxxiv. 21 In earing time and in haruest thou shalt rest.

1764 Museum Rusticum 2 lxxiv. 247 If a man's ardors (or earings) be considerable, he will not finish before July.

1779 E. Wolff En Dansk og Engelsk Ord-bog at Agerdyrkning Tilling, manuring, earing of ground.

1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XV. 117 Services done by the tenants, that ought to be abolished, such as reaping, earing, plowing, harrowing, driving out dung.

1827 J. Taylor Old Eng. Sayings 37 If we do not sow in earing time, it is useless to sow in harvest.

1894 J. H. Wylie Hist. Eng. Henry IV II. li. 223 The swampy wilderness..was already transformed into rich grass land, or assarted to tilth and earing.

1910 J. Lister in H. L. Roth Yorks. Coiners, 1767–83 ii. i. 116 The sweat of the brow, and the labour of spade and plough have wrested little patches of earing land, meadow, and pasture, from the dominion of whins and heather.

2001 A. Major Kentish as she wus Spoke 63 Earing, Eryng, the time in a working day's ploughing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

earingn.²

Brit.

/ˈɪərɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɪ(ə)rɪŋ/

Forms: see ear v.² and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ear v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < ear v.² + -ing suffix¹.

The coming into ear of a cereal crop. Cf. ear n.² Phrases 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > cereal plants or corn > ear or part of ear > coming into ear

earing1548

1548 T. Key tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Mark iv. 17 in N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. It wyddered awaye before it came to earing.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 41 Many Grains are commonly lost which come not to sprouting or earing.

1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May ii. 27 If Wheat looks yellowish in [May], and continues so throughout the whole, it will never rightly recover that Summer; because then it is on its Shoot or Earing, and past Hopes.

1834 Farmer's Mag. July 223/1 On light shallow lands wheat is coming fast forward to earing, but without immediate rain the crop will not be bulky.

1893 16th Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Dairymen's Assoc. 97 Corn roots run in rich soil quite close to the surface and continual cutting them off when cultivating.., delays the earing.

1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) xii. 253 A thinly sown cereal crop cut green (at earing time)..will afford the little protection required.

1998 L. Harding Exploring Avalon 15 The corn though late sown is now in earing.

2014 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. The plants that lodged were in the process of earing (grain formation).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

earingn.³

Brit.

/ˈɪərɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɪ(ə)rɪŋ/

Forms: 1600s–1800s earring, 1600s– earing.

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by compounding. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ear n.¹, ring n.¹; ear n.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Either (i) < ear n.¹ + ring n.¹ (compare earring n. and forms at that entry), or (ii) < ear n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. With the use of ear to denote a loop in the corner of a sail that is implied by this word compare German Nockohren (plural) earing cringles, lit. ‘ears of the nock (of a sail)’ (late 18th cent. or earlier); compare nock earing n. at nock n.² Compounds.

Nautical.

In earlier use: a loop in the corner of a sail through which a rope may be attached. Later: any of various small ropes threaded through such a loop in order to fasten the (upper) corner of a sail to the yard.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing sail to yard

headline1294

rope-bend1294

roband1336

robbin1497

raeband1513

rope-yard1611

earing1626

leech-line1626

rope-band1769

jackstay1834

roving1837

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 15 The trusses, the lifts, the earring, the cat harpings.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 23 The Earing is that part of the bunt rope which at all the foure corners of the saile is left open as it were a ring.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Clew of the Sail of a Ship is the lower Corner of it which reaches down to that Earing where the Tackles and Sheats are fastned.

1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 25 The earings and the reef-lines are prepar'd.

1774 Westm. Mag. 2 429 We're all Macaronies from earing to clue.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 31 Our new second mate used to..have the weather earing passed before there was a man upon the yard.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 45 The head earrings [are] handed up to the earing men on the yard.

1923 C. B. Hawes Dark Frigate (1924) viii. 85 He locked his legs around the spar and got finger hold on the earing.

1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea x. 232 Many a watch had been spent in..attending to new earings, robands, reef-points.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† earingadj.

Forms: see ear v.¹ and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ear v.¹, -ing suffix².

Etymology: < ear v.¹ + -ing suffix².

Obsolete.

That tills the ground. Cf. ear v.¹In quot. OE showing the present participle.

ΚΠ

OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 7 Hwylc eower hæfþ eregendne þeow, oððe scep læsgendne [L. servum arantem aut pascentem]?]

1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 79 He maketh many mysteries of the Crosse: as y^e hoysed sayle, the earyng plow, the blowing windes.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 64 With cruell hand the earing ploughes she brake, And man and beast that tilde the grounde to death in anger strake.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

n.¹OE

n.²1548

n.³1626

adj.1565

单词	earing
释义	earingn.¹ Brit. /ˈɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɪ(ə)rɪŋ/ Forms: α. Old English eriung, Middle English eriing, Middle English eriynge, Middle English eryyng, Middle English eryynge. β. Middle English ering (in copy of Old English charter), Middle English eringe, Middle English erynge, Middle English heryng, Middle English (2000s– archaic) eryng, 1500s earinge, 1500s– earing. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ear v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < ear v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Now rare (archaic and regional). The action of ploughing; (also) an instance of this, a ploughing. Also attributive, as earing-land, earing-time. ΘΚΠ 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 OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 45 Aratio, eriung. c1300 ( Will of Ketel (Sawyer 1519) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1848) VI. 200 Ðat eringlond [c1275 erninglond] ðat Ælfwold mine man haueð hunder hande. a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 284 (MED) Eriynge [glossing Fr. arure]. a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 694 (MED) Eriinglond [glossing Fr. tere arable]. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 1228 (MED) The ferste craft of plowh tilinge, Of Eringe, and of corn sowinge. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 141 Eryynge of londe, aracio. c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 175 (MED) In erynges, cariages, Medesutes, Mowynges, and all other Seruages. a1500 Walter of Henley's Husbandry (Sloane) (1890) 45 (MED) Þe firste day off erynge, falowinge & sowynge. 1530 Bible (Tyndale) i. xxi. f. 37 Let them bringe her vnto a valeye where is nether earinge nor sowenge. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie E 13 The first earing or tilthe of lande. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. ix. 672 Wheate or mesling especiallie, do desire to haue three earings, before they be sowen. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxxiv. 21 In earing time and in haruest thou shalt rest. View more context for this quotation 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 lxxiv. 247 If a man's ardors (or earings) be considerable, he will not finish before July. 1779 E. Wolff En Dansk og Engelsk Ord-bog at Agerdyrkning Tilling, manuring, earing of ground. 1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XV. 117 Services done by the tenants, that ought to be abolished, such as reaping, earing, plowing, harrowing, driving out dung. 1827 J. Taylor Old Eng. Sayings 37 If we do not sow in earing time, it is useless to sow in harvest. 1894 J. H. Wylie Hist. Eng. Henry IV II. li. 223 The swampy wilderness..was already transformed into rich grass land, or assarted to tilth and earing. 1910 J. Lister in H. L. Roth Yorks. Coiners, 1767–83 ii. i. 116 The sweat of the brow, and the labour of spade and plough have wrested little patches of earing land, meadow, and pasture, from the dominion of whins and heather. 2001 A. Major Kentish as she wus Spoke 63 Earing, Eryng, the time in a working day's ploughing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). earingn.² Brit. /ˈɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɪ(ə)rɪŋ/ Forms: see ear v.² and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ear v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < ear v.² + -ing suffix¹. The coming into ear of a cereal crop. Cf. ear n.² Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > cereal plants or corn > ear or part of ear > coming into ear earing1548 1548 T. Key tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Mark iv. 17 in N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. It wyddered awaye before it came to earing. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 41 Many Grains are commonly lost which come not to sprouting or earing. 1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May ii. 27 If Wheat looks yellowish in [May], and continues so throughout the whole, it will never rightly recover that Summer; because then it is on its Shoot or Earing, and past Hopes. 1834 Farmer's Mag. July 223/1 On light shallow lands wheat is coming fast forward to earing, but without immediate rain the crop will not be bulky. 1893 16th Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Dairymen's Assoc. 97 Corn roots run in rich soil quite close to the surface and continual cutting them off when cultivating.., delays the earing. 1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) xii. 253 A thinly sown cereal crop cut green (at earing time)..will afford the little protection required. 1998 L. Harding Exploring Avalon 15 The corn though late sown is now in earing. 2014 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. The plants that lodged were in the process of earing (grain formation). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). earingn.³ Brit. /ˈɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɪ(ə)rɪŋ/ Forms: 1600s–1800s earring, 1600s– earing. Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by compounding. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ear n.¹, ring n.¹; ear n.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Either (i) < ear n.¹ + ring n.¹ (compare earring n. and forms at that entry), or (ii) < ear n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. With the use of ear to denote a loop in the corner of a sail that is implied by this word compare German Nockohren (plural) earing cringles, lit. ‘ears of the nock (of a sail)’ (late 18th cent. or earlier); compare nock earing n. at nock n.² Compounds. Nautical. In earlier use: a loop in the corner of a sail through which a rope may be attached. Later: any of various small ropes threaded through such a loop in order to fasten the (upper) corner of a sail to the yard. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing sail to yard headline1294 rope-bend1294 roband1336 robbin1497 raeband1513 rope-yard1611 earing1626 leech-line1626 rope-band1769 jackstay1834 roving1837 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 15 The trusses, the lifts, the earring, the cat harpings. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 23 The Earing is that part of the bunt rope which at all the foure corners of the saile is left open as it were a ring. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Clew of the Sail of a Ship is the lower Corner of it which reaches down to that Earing where the Tackles and Sheats are fastned. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 25 The earings and the reef-lines are prepar'd. 1774 Westm. Mag. 2 429 We're all Macaronies from earing to clue. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 31 Our new second mate used to..have the weather earing passed before there was a man upon the yard. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 45 The head earrings [are] handed up to the earing men on the yard. 1923 C. B. Hawes Dark Frigate (1924) viii. 85 He locked his legs around the spar and got finger hold on the earing. 1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea x. 232 Many a watch had been spent in..attending to new earings, robands, reef-points. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † earingadj. Forms: see ear v.¹ and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ear v.¹, -ing suffix². Etymology: < ear v.¹ + -ing suffix². Obsolete. That tills the ground. Cf. ear v.¹In quot. OE showing the present participle. ΚΠ OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 7 Hwylc eower hæfþ eregendne þeow, oððe scep læsgendne [L. servum arantem aut pascentem]?] 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 79 He maketh many mysteries of the Crosse: as y^e hoysed sayle, the earyng plow, the blowing windes. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 64 With cruell hand the earing ploughes she brake, And man and beast that tilde the grounde to death in anger strake. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.¹OEn.²1548n.³1626adj.1565
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