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n. Nautical A short line attaching an upper corner of a sail to the yard.

n. A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; also called head earing.

n. A ploughing of land.

n. A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.

n. A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.

n. A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.

n. Coming into ear, as corn.

n. A plowing of land.

n. A small rope attached to the cringle of a sail, by which it is bent or reefed.

n. The forming of ears of corn.

n. A plowing of land. See ear.

"The word earing is an obsolete Saxon term by which our translators have rendered the"

from clue to earing   

head earing   

ear   

earance    gur    fanega    medimni    scarceness    half-a-pound    land-carriage    pardoning    sylphlike    /in