rearingn.
/ˈrɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɪrɪŋ/ The action of rear v.1 in various senses.
1.
a. The action of raising something or causing something to rise up; lifting upright, elevation; †increasing (obsolete). Formerly also with †up. Now rare.Recorded earliest in rearing vat n. at Compounds 2, with the sense ‘fermentation’.
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1305 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Early Mayor's Court Rolls (1924) 209 (MED) Rering vat.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 211 For sadnes of þe erþe..þat susteyneþ þe rootes..þe herbe haþ grenenesse in roote and susteynynge of þe stalk in þe rerynge [L. erectione] þer of.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 241 There was rerynge of laddyrs and brekynge of wallys.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. XXXiiii In the whiche reryng doutles, his handes & fete dyd rent and teare.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 6th Serm. sig. Uvv The deuill..sterres men up to outragious rearyng of rentes.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. ix. 575 Fearing lest the engins devised to raise it [sc. an obelisk],..in the rearing should faile.
1686 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 3) 130 In the rearing of your Boar, you need not be afraid to come near him, for he values you not.
1860 Bibliotheca Sacra & Biblical Repository 17 423 The rearing up of the cross.
1980 M. Robinson Housekeeping i. 9 They did not wait for the memorial service and rearing of the commemorative stone.
b. The construction or reconstruction of (part of) a house or other building; formerly also with †up. Also: spec. (chiefly English regional) the putting on or completion of the roof of a house. Now historical.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun]
bigginga1325
rearinga1325
buildingc1394
edifying1432
upbringing1484
rising?a1500
upmaking1513
upbigging1525
edification1549
erecting1553
structure1604
erection1614
compilementa1639
architecture1646
exstruction1652
built1654
edifice1663
fabric1730
upbuilding1732
builth1805
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) v. 11 Þe king for þe despit ant for þe tressepas sal uellen his castel,..biþoute ani reringe.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 99 (MED) Scipio..fforbeed þe rerynge of þe theatre in þe citee of Rome.
1444 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) App. B. 516 (MED) Also, ij men laboryng with the seyde John vij dayes at the reryng of the forseyde hows.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xliv. 238 (MED) Whiles this towr was in Makyng, þe dewk a fair Chirche hadde In Reryng [Fr. fist..establir].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras v. 62 In the rearinge vp of the house of the Lorde.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 232 Buyldyng an hous euen from the foundacion vnto the vttermost raftreyng and reirynge of the roofe.
1609 T. Wilson Expos. Sixt Chapter Hebrewes 2 The doctrine of Catechisme is first to be laid as a foundation, and afterward the misterie of Christ is more highly and deeply to bee handled, as it were the rearing of the walles, roofe, and loouer.
1629 in R. S. France Thieveley Lead Mines (1951) 17 In alle att the house rearing.
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 329 God..making the common influences of Heaven to stop their course, and pay a kind of Homage to the Rearing of so sacred a Structure.
1759 J. Newton Diary 31 Oct. in Deserted Village (1992) 63 Sent to the House rearing a five Gallon Vessel of Ale.
1841 H. T. Tuckerman Rambles & Reveries 48 The republic was in a measure fortified by the rearing of a castle.
1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 667 In the minster of the Holy Trinity of his own rearing.
1926 World's Work Sept. 572/1 The rapidity of its rearing was eclipsed by the cyclonic velocity of its razing.
1966 G. E. Evans Pattern under Plough i. 31 The house raising or rearing (levatio in medieval Latin), sometimes referred to also as ‘the setting of the house upon ground’, was in fact a real communal occasion, a working together.
2.
a. The action or practice of bringing a person, animal, or (occasionally) plant to maturity or to a certain stage of growth; the breeding and raising of animals or (occasionally) the cultivation of plants as an occupation. Also: the fact or manner of this; upbringing.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun]
rearinga1398
nourishing1615
conservation1646
zoosophy1662
culture1744
cultivation1791
zoogeny1826
zootechny1841
stock-keeping1844
ranching1851
conditioning1861
zootechnics1863
zooculture1873
zootrophy1877
animaliculture1879
mothering1922
stockmanship1959
society > education > upbringing > [noun]
nourishingc1325
nurturec1330
afaitementc1400
nurseryc1400
nortelryc1405
alterage?c1450
nouriturec1450
rulec1525
upbringingc1525
education1527
nourituring1555
nutriture1567
breeding1577
nurturing1578
nuzzling1586
rearing1611
frame1632
seasoning1649
nurtureship1837
child-rearing1842
paedotrophy1857
raising1929
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun]
governaila1400
husbanding?1440
nursing?1533
culture1580
cultivation1637
elevation1658
growth1663
rearing1693
growing1889
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 259 Vnresonable bestes..haueþ redynesse of witte in bredyng and of rerynge of hire brood [L. in educatione fetuum].
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. i The most generall lyuynge that husbandes can haue, is by plowynge & sowynge of theyr cornes & rerynge [?1523 resyng] or bredynge of theyre catell, and not the one withoute the other.
1593 R. Furse Diary in Devonshire Trans. (1894) 26 179 He allwayes mentayned..good geldynges good tyllage good rerynge and was a good hussebonde.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Eslevement, a rearing, breeding, or bringing up.
1693 J. Dryden Examen Poeticum 303 He's a young Plant..But his Friend swears, he will be worth the reering.
1711 Boston News-let. 26 Nov. 2/2 (advt.) A Negro Child to be given for the Rearing, inquire of Mr. John Colman Merchant, at his House in Hanover Street, Boston.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 770 The soil..is thin, and better adapted to the rearing of cotton than sugar.
1835 J. Hall Tales of Border 107 They were not an agricultural people, further than the rearing of a few esculents for the table.
a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. vi. 131 Not one..disgraced the homely rearing of their humbly positioned but gentle born parents.
1886 Paul's Fish Culture Sept. 67 They aim at the stocking of waters rather than the rearing of fish for the table.
1944 Indian Farming 5 365/1 The rearing of eri is much easier than that of any other silk worm.
1987 A. Dillard Amer. Childhood (1990) ii. 211 Its first curator was a Scotch-Irish Pittsburgher whose rearing had made it painful for him to spend money.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) V/4 A lifestyle of fine houses, stylish lovers, an inherited income and the rearing of dachshunds.
b. British regional. A young calf which is being reared. Now rare.
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1690 in B. Trinder & J. Cox Yeoman & Colliers in Telford 1660–1750 (1980) 216 Ittm Three Bulloks..Ittm. Nine rearings..Ittm three Mares & fower Coults.
1826 A. Henderson Pract. Grazier ii. 75 These cattle..are likewise kept throughout Dumfries-shire, although not of such genuine stamp as those in Galloway, owing to the farmers making milk their object, and selling their rearings mostly when one year old.
1884 R. Holland Cheshire Gloss. 283 Rearing, a calf which is being reared.
3. † a. The fact of rising up; projection. Obsolete.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [noun] > above a certain level > great or considerable > fact of
rearinga1398
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 169v Valeyes..ben y-shadowed by rerynge and hyȝnesse of hilles [L. collium eleuatione].
b. Of a horse: the action or habit of rising upright on the hind legs.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > rising up on hind feet
ramp1671
rearing1688
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > rearing or plunging
escapade1672
rearing1688
pont-levis1705
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vii. 149 Corvet, is the Rearing and Capering of a Horse.
1783 J. Barry Acct. Series Pictures at Adelphi 52 The rearing up of the horse..furnished me with an opportunity of introducing Pericles.
1799 W. Godwin St. Leon III. xi. 255 The rearing of the horse of the life-guardsman was purely accidental.
1831 W. Youatt Horse xviii. 337 Then rearing may be immediately and permanently cured by using a snaffle-bridle alone.
1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 262 In the frantic rearing of the horse..both horse and rider turned a somersault.
1938 H. Wynmalen Equitation (1980) ix. 64 Rearing is undoubtedly the worst vice of a riding horse; it can be extremely dangerous especially if the animal gets up so high that he is liable to over-balance and to fall backwards.
1990 G. H. Morris Hunter Seat Equitation (ed. 3) ii. iii. 52 Rearing is a far more evil and serious vice than bucking.
2000 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 29 Nov. 13 From the age of 13, Morison was working other people's horses for them, fixing problems like rearing, bucking, biting and kicking.
4. A lean cut of pork, taken from the buttock or loin. Now rare (in later use English regional).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > cuts or parts
pig's footc1475
hog's foot1561
hog's cheek1573
bald-rib1598
spring1598
list1623
griskin1699
chine1712
pork griskin1725
rearing1736
pork chop?1752
hand1794
faggot1815
hog round1819
sweet-bone1826
butt1845
pig trotter1851
pork belly1863
Hodge1879
fore-end1906
fore-hock1923
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 349 Take two buttock pieces or as they are also call'd two rearing pieces of pork (these are the lean that is cut off the gammon on the inside of the flitch).
1740 E. Purefoy Let. 31 Jan. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) i. 203 I desire your acceptance of a spare ribb, a rearing, a little chine, a couple of Pulletts, & a Goose.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 396 The meat taken out of a flitch of bacon, when the ham is left in: in other words the fleshy part of the leg, which instead of being cut out smoothly, as a round of beef, is raised or lifted with one hand, whilst it is cut out with the other. For a similar reason it is often called the rearing.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Rearing of Pork,..the loin of a porkling pig.
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C1. (In sense 2.) ‘Intended for rearing, being reared’, as rearing calf, rearing pig; used in rearing, as rearing ground, rearing jar, rearing pond, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [adjective] > intended for rearing
rearing1599
1599 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 251 viij. olde swyne and twelve rearinge pigges.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. v. 267/1 House the Rearing Calf, and suckle it twice a day, and after a while set by him Water and Hay, and a ragged Stake to rub on, and at 50 days end Wean it.
1709 in A. Broun & N. Cox Husb. & Huswifery (1933) 70 2 Rearing Calves.
1760 Act Free Importation of Cattle from Ireland Considered 14 Whether by Drains and Inclosures, the same Quantity of Breeding and Rearing-Grounds doth not produce a greater Number of Cattle?
1854 Zoologist 12 4189 For rearing-glasses [for insects], I have used confectioners' show-glasses of various sizes.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Apr. 4/2 Building hatching-houses and boxes, constructing rearing-coops and runs.
1886 Paul's Fish Culture Sept. 71 Rearing grounds similar to those which are found on the coast of France.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Promising well-bred rearing heifer calf.
1891 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 198/1 Rearing ponds situated near the sea.
1918 Sci. Monthly Aug. 123 We ought to know..the relative oxygenating values of the different species of aquatic plants..for rearing ponds.
1967 K. M. Smith Insect Virol. x. 184 The hot medium is poured into rearing jars.
1986 Herald (Keswick & Lake District) 13 Sept. 11/3 At..Auction..on Thursday Penrith Farmer's and Kidd's had 25 cast cows and 60 stirks and rearing calves.
2007 Cage & Aviary Birds 31 May 16/3 Adding pinkies or maggots or buffalo worms bought in frozen packs and thawed out and added to the rearing food when needed.
C2. † rearing vat n. Obsolete a fermentation vat used in brewing.
rearing bit n. Equestrianism a bit to which a martingale or other strap may be clipped in order to prevent a horse from lifting its head while rearing.
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1845 Sporting Mag. Jan. 36 A rearing-bit or a fixed martingale are most decidedly out of character in the hunting field.
1937 D. Conyers in G. Winter Horseman's Week-end Bk. 145 He had to be ridden in a rearing bit to the meets, with his evil eye set sullenly as he recognized defeat.
2004 Townsville (Queensland, Austral.) Bull. (Nexis) 31 July 41 A steward caught five trainers who led their horses from their float on to the course without having clipped the rearing bit to the head collar.
rearing-bone n. English regional (Hampshire) (rare) the hip bone of a pig; cf. sense 4.
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1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms 139/2 Rearing-bone, the hip-bone of a hog, by means of which the animal is enabled to rear, or raise himself up. Hants.
1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Rearing-bone, the hip-bone of a pig.
rearing-feast n. English regional (now historical) = rearing supper n.
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1796 Aris's Birmingham Gaz. 30 Jan. in Birmingham Post (2000) (Nexis) 22 Jan. 54 On Saturday last the Rearing Feast of the new foundry..was given to the engine-smiths and all the other workmen employed in the erection.
1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 56 They'll have the ruff on at Appleford to-day, you: bean't you gwyne to the rearen feast.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 243/2 Reearin'-feeast, the old word for a house-warming party, which used to be held when the last tile or bundle of thatch went up on the roof.
rearing house n. a building in which young chickens are kept; (also) a building in which silkworms are reared.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > laying house, hatchery, etc.
rearing house1824
sitting room1850
hatchery1857
brooding-room1884
eggery1910
laying house1913
battery1931
1824 J. H. Barlow Hatching Poultry by Steam 15 The Rearing House is of the same size and dimensions as the Hatching House, in which Fowls are kept until they are three weeks or a month old.
1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 578 A disease which appeared in South France nearly thirty years ago and attacked the silk worms with much virulence, is also a case in point... This disease appeared in the rearing houses in great violence in 1854.
1948 L. Robinson Mod. Poultry Husb. xi. 227 When growing stock are first placed in arks or other types of range rearing-house, a temporary run of wire netting should be erected.
1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 549 Laborde..established a rearing house for silkworm with an annual output of 200 kilograms of raw silk.
rearing supper n. English regional (now historical) a celebratory meal given to workers on completion of (the roof of) a building.
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1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. 75 A house is reared when the wood-work of the roof is raised upon it. The workmen employed in building a new house have a rearing-supper when arrived at this stage of their labour.
1867 B. Brierley Marlocks of Merriton (E.D.D.) 113 He cannot even build a house, but there must be the ‘rearing’ supper.
1965 R. Blumenau Hist. Malvern Coll. 1865–1965 8 Eighty workmen walked in procession to the Belle Vue Hotel for the traditional gargantuan rearing supper to celebrate the laying of the roof-timbers.
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1305Rering vat [see sense 1a].
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rearingadj.
/ˈrɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɪrɪŋ/ 1. That rises up (towards a vertical position or into the air); towering, standing high. Also figurative.Used esp. of a horse; cf. rear v.1 6a.In quot. 1686: that has a steep incline; cf. rearer n. 4.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [adjective] > moving upwards
uprisinga1300
risingc1450
ascensial?1504
mountant1525
mounting1550
orienta1560
ascendant1591
surgenta1592
stying1593
ambitiousc1595
arising1605
ascensive1646
subliming1666
ascending1667
ascensional1753
upmounting1794
rearing1816
upcoming1835
aspirant1845
insurrectionary1864
upgoing1896
the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > that rears
rampantc1300
rampinga1425
rearing1851
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [adjective] > rearing or plunging
plunging1538
floundering1592
rearing1851
1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea (new ed.) iii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 129 Rearing rocks with thundring noise the flapping waues do beate.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 147 If it be a rearing mine or edg-coal as some call it, cuting the superficies of the earth at right angles.
1740 R. Erskine Fountain-head All Blessings 13 How comes it, that there is..such a Flowing of the raging, rearing Tide of Corruption, as Grace cannot be seen?
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 254 Rearing to approach the rearing foe, Their wavy manes are dash'd with foamy snow.
1816 L. Hunt Hero & Leander ii. 65 Surmounted like a god the rearing tide.
1851 Rural Cycl. IV. 29 A viciously rearing horse..is sometimes dealt with by being pulled over backward by a rider.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 533 A yoke of buckets leopards all over him and his rearing nag.
1946 C. Fry Firstborn iii. ii. 97 Storm-riding souls and rearing spirit.
2007 Financial Times (Nexis) 20 Apr. 11 Panthers, pigs, goats, snakes, girls, gods and rearing horses of luminous white marble embellish a Roman sarcophagus.
2. That brings a person or animal up to or towards maturity; esp. that raises livestock as an occupation.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [adjective]
rearing1787
zootechnic1861
zoocultural1899
1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. 328 The number of cows kept, even by the rearing-farmers, is few.
a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. xvi. 341 Instead of..flying about..to buy a lot of beasts from the small rearing farmers,..our Highland proprietors rear large stocks of young cattle.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 119/1 A Rearing Mother for the artificial rearing of the chickens.
1922 Times 16 May 17/6 The breeding and rearing farmers..wish to exclude Canadian cattle.
1980 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 45 862 There is insufficient information on the natural fathers and on the occupational prestige of employed, rearing mothers.
2007 North Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Mar. 35 This will affect the South West's rearing farmers, who farm mainly beef animals and sell them at between 9 and 12 months.
3. = raring adj. 2. Frequently in rearing to go.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adjective] > eager
yevereOE
frecka1000
cofc1000
fousOE
sharpc1000
anguishous?c1225
eager?a1300
hardya1387
hetera1400
yeverousa1400
belivea1450
forthward1488
yapc1500
ertand1508
tite?a1540
high1649
fell1667
forwardeda1674
agog1683
enthusiastic1777
empressé1878
rearing1904
press-on1948
1904 Paducah (Kentucky) Sun 31 May Sporting Ben Boyd is rearing to go with his string of cracks [i.e. crack players].
1947 H. Walsh Fourth Point of Star 34 I am rearing to talk this business over with her.
2000 S. McKay Northern Protestants 59 He was rearing to go, to sort things out in the old style.
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