earing meaning: definition, quotations

earing

noun

/ˈɪəɹɪŋ/

Nautical, Transport A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff.

Nautical, Transport 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:

Nautical, Transport A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.

Business, Manufacturing A manufacturing defect in which the edges of sheet metal form a wave pattern during deep drawing.

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:
Sixe dayes thou shalt worke, but on the seuenth day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in haruest thou shalt rest.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 34:21:

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: