dinning

Verb

din (third-person singular simple present dins, present participle dinning, simple past and past participle dinned)

1. (intransitive) To make a din, to resound.
   • For, spite of rumbling of the wheels,
     A welcome greeting he can hear;—
     It is a fiddle in its glee
     Dinning from the CHERRY TREE!1820, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 2, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 2, p. 21
2. (intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
   • The room was dinning with the strains of an invisible orchestra and the vocal uproar […]1914, Rex Beach, chapter 3, in The Auction Block, New York: Harper & Bros., page 33
3. (transitive) To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
   • She ought in such Cases to exert the Authority of the Curtain Lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious Disposition, to tame him, as they do Birds of Prey, by dinning him in the Ears all Night long.1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder: or Political Essays, London: D. Midwinter & J. Tonson, No. 8, 16 January, 1716, pp. 45-46
4. (transitive) To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone).
   • This has been often dinned in my Ears.1724, The Hibernian Patriot: Being a Collection of the Drapier’s Letters to the People of Ireland concerning Mr. Wood’s Brass Half-Pence, London: Jonathan Swift, published 1730, Letter 2, p. 61

   Synonyms:

   drum

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Noun

dining (countable and uncountable, plural dinings)

1. Eating dinner as a social function.
   • For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana; the cheering crowds upon the quay; the friends we met and made; the dinings in and dinings out […]1869, The XIX Century, volume 1, page 6
2. Entertaining someone to dinner.