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lawing

lawing noun: going to law; litigation. Also the present participle and gerund of law.

Noun

lawing (plural lawings)

  1. Going to law; litigation.
    • And in this distresse and necessitie it had beene verie requisit and needfull that the souldiers should haue taken vp their weapons , serued against the enimie , and haue defended Lawing woorse the common state1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC
  2. (Scotland, UK, obsolete) Money owed for a service rendered.
    • A shilling for breakfast, three shillings for dinner, including a pint of old port, eighteen-pence for a snug supper — such were the charges of the inn of Saint Ronan's under this landlady of the olden world, even after the nineteenth century had commenced ; and they were ever tendered with the...1824, Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well, page 9
    • Late at e'en, drinking the wine, And ere they paid the lawing, They set a combat them between, To fight it in the dawing.1925, George Wharton Edwards, The Book of Old English Ballads, →ISBN

Proper noun capitalized: Lawing

Lawing (plural Lawings)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

lawing is also the present participle and gerund of law.

lawing is also the present participle and gerund of lawe.

Forms of lawing

Noun
plurallawings
Proper noun
pluralLawings

Origin of lawing

From law + -ing.

Questions about lawing

What does lawing mean?
Lawing means going to law; litigation.
What part of speech is lawing?
Lawing can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of lawing?
The plural of lawing is lawings.

Words near lawing in the dictionary

  1. Lawhorne
  2. Lawhorns
  3. Lawigue
  4. lawine
  5. lawines
  6. lawing
  7. lawings
  8. Lawis
  9. lawish
  10. Lawitta
  11. lawk

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