Definitions for earing

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earing ear·ing

Spelling: [eer-ing]

IPA: /ˈɪər ɪŋ/

Earing is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in earing (aeginr).

Definitions for earing

noun

1. a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
2. the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.

verb (used with object)

1. to plow; cultivate.

verb (used without object)

1. to form or put forth ears.

Origin of earing

First recorded in 1620-30; ear¹ + -ing¹

Examples for earing

Their first month was called Abib, from the earing of Corn in that month.

That's it—he was afraid of my 'earing things that mightn't be wholesome for me to know.

Haul well out, and take a round-turn with the earing round the cringle.

In all sails whose opposite leeches are of the same length, it is terminated above by the earing, and below by the clue.

The young chap looks me all over from clue to earing, and says he, "My mother told you to say that!"

Also, small wedges of wood fastened on the yards, to keep ropes or the earing of the sail from slipping off the yard.

And yet, earing, with all this press of canvas, by the compass we have not left her a foot.

The outer turns of the earing serve to extend the sail outwards along its yard.

For the sheet must be hauled right in, and cannot be eased while the earing is being made fast.

In vain he tried to clutch the earing; it slipped through his fingers.