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greesings

greesings noun: steps.

Noun

greesings pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) Steps.
    • The next day, being the 14th of January, all the visitors (only Christopherson elect of Chichester, excepted) came to the King's college; where, first going into the church, and there making their prayers at the greesings, they so proceeded into the stalls, there sitting all the mass time […]1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

Origin of greesings

Compare gree and grice.

Questions about greesings

What does greesings mean?
Greesings means steps.
What part of speech is greesings?
Greesings is a noun.

Words near greesings in the dictionary

  1. Greers
  2. Greers Ferry
  3. grees
  4. greese
  5. greeses
  6. greesings
  7. Greeson
  8. Greesons
  9. greet
  10. greetable
  11. greete

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