onding

noun — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From Middle English ondyng, equivalent to onde (“to breathe, breathe on”) + -ing.

Breathing; smelling.

noun

Etymology From on- + ding (“to beat, strike”).

UK, Dialectal A heavy, continuous fall of rain or snow; a downpour.

... they inform the rest, with inward sorrow, that it is still "a terrible onding." So the circle is once more formed. Some one now proposes a game o' cairts, and the pack is produced.1891, Alexander Gordon, The Folks O' Carglen: Or, Life in the North, page 142:

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