Earing Definition

îrĭng
noun
A small rope passed through a cringle and used to attach the corner of a sail to a yard, gaff, or boom or to reef a sail.
Webster's New World

(archaic) A ploughing of land.

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Other Word Forms of Earing

Noun

Singular:
earing
Plural:
earings

Origin of Earing

  • Perhaps from ear

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Earing Sentence Examples

  • We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, artificial hearts, word processors, yogurt and men wearing earing earings.

  • It was custom for sailors to wear a gold earing, this was to pay for their burial if they perished at sea.

  • Thus, while of German periodicals ap p earing in Hungary there were in 1871 only 85, they increased in 1880 to 114, in 1885 to 141; and they were, at the beginning of 1895, still 128, in spite of the constant spread of that process of Magyarization which has, since 1880, considerably changed the linguistic habits of the people of Hungary.

  • Observation of hearing ability is indicated for children with glue earing ability is indicated for children with glue ear, in whom some hearing loss is common.

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Words Starting With

EEAEAR

Words Ending With

GNGING

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