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earings

earings is the plural of earing.

Meaning of earing

Noun

earing (plural earings)

  1. A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff.
    Synonyms:
    head earing
  2. 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
  3. A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
  4. A manufacturing defect in which the edges of sheet metal form a wave pattern during deep drawing.
  5. (archaic) 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
  6. (archaic, rare) 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

Questions about earings

What is earings the plural of?
Earings is the plural of earing.

Words near earings in the dictionary

  1. earhorns
  2. earie
  3. earies
  4. eariness
  5. earing
  6. earings
  7. Earith
  8. earl
  9. Earl Grey
  10. Earl Greys
  11. earl marshal

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