earing
/ˈɪəɹɪŋ/
earing noun: a line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff. Also the present participle and gerund of ear.
Noun
earing (plural earings)
- A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff.
- Synonyms:
- head earing
- A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard.
- You've forgot to pass the tack-earing, but wid time and help ye'll larn. There's good and just reason for ivry rope aboard, or else 'twould be overboard. D'ye follow me?1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
- Synonyms:
- reef earing
- A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
- A manufacturing defect in which the edges of sheet metal form a wave pattern during deep drawing.
- A ploughing of land.
- For these two yeeres hath the famine bene in the land: and yet there are fiue yeeres, in the which there shall neither be earing nor haruest.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 45:6
- Sixe dayes thou shalt worke, but on the seuenth day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in haruest thou shalt rest.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 34:21
- An earring.
- Gustave. (Gets up.) What? I believe you are wearing my earings yet!1910, August Strindberg, translated by Francis Joseph Ziegler, The Creditor, page 96
Also used as
earing is also the present participle and gerund of ear.
Synonyms of earing
Forms of earing
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Words that rhyme with earing
Questions about earing
- What does earing mean?
- Earing means a line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff.
- What part of speech is earing?
- Earing is a noun.
- How do you pronounce earing?
- Earing is pronounced /ˈɪəɹɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of earing?
- The plural of earing is earings.
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