Results for Earing

Definitions of Earing:

( obs.) Ploughing.

Usage examples for Earing:

• For several days we made tolerably fair progress, but on the 2nd of December a gale of wind sprang up, and carried away our jury- main- topmast and top- yard, and split the sail from clew to earing "Hurricane Hurry", W.H.G. Kingston

• The studding- sail boom of the foreyard, which had been carelessly left out, had been broken off short in the earing from the pressure of the wind on the bare spar. "The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I", William James Stillman

• Asking nothing by word or look, he proved himself under her eyes- first on deck; first in the rigging; the best man at a weather- earing the best at the wheel; quick, obedient, intelligent, and respectful, winning the admiration of his mates, the jealous ill will of the officers, but no sign of interest or approval from her until to- night- the ninety- second day of the passage. ""Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea", Morgan Robertson

• There is the prospect of a breeze coming in from the sea, Mr Earing we will get our topsails to the mast- heads again, and be in readiness for it. "The Red Rover", James Fenimore Cooper