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lawings

lawings is the plural of lawing.

Meaning of lawing

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Lawings

Lawings

  1. (plural) plural of Lawing

Questions about lawings

What is lawings the plural of?
Lawings is the plural of lawing.
What part of speech is lawings?
Lawings is a proper noun.

Words near lawings in the dictionary

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

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