Crossword clues for earing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ear \Ear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Earing.]
To take in with the ears; to hear. [Sportive] ``I eared her
language.''
--Two Noble Kinsmen.
Earing \Ear"ing\, n. (Naut.)
A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.
A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.
A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
Earing \Ear"ing\, n. Coming into ear, as corn.
Earing \Ear"ing\, n. A plowing of land. [Archaic]
Neither earing nor harvest.
--Gen. xlv. 6.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; also called head earing. 2 (context nautical English) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; also called reef earing. 3 (context nautical English) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions. 4 (context archaic English) A ploughing of land.
Wikipedia
In sailing, an earing is a small line ( rope) used to fasten the corner of a sail to a spar or yard.
In the Age of Sail, a position at the Weather Earing (the earing at the windward side of the ship) was considered a place of honor for the topmen, and on a merchant ship was the position of the second mate during reefing.
Usage examples of "earing".
Aunt Sarah had got her best earings and her dolman with beeds and Keene and Cele had on their bronze boots and there plad dresses and they got a seet on the platform.
The new canvas was laid out on the deck, the sheets already reeved into the clews and earing cringles, but it took an hour Of hard, dangerous work before her white canvas was brought down and stowed away, and the sails that were daubed with pitch were hoist to the yards and unfurled.
The new canvas was laid out on the deck, the sheets already reeved into the clews and earing cringles, but it took an hour Of hard, dangerous work before her white canvas was brought down and stowed away, and the sails that were daubed with pitch were hoist to the yards and unfurled.
Short hairshort to the point of a crew cut, were it not for the longer fringes around her face and neckjangling earings, and a filmy black top over a long purple skirt.
Short hair—short to the point of a crew cut, were it not for the longer fringes around her face and neck—jangling earings, and a filmy black top over a long purple skirt.
It wasn't so much the cute boy with the earings and blond hair and designer jeans that turned their heads -- although he got a wolf-whistle from Bernice -- but his companion who stunned them.
Many a watch had been spent in sending up preventer backstays, braces, shrouds and stays and in attending to new earings, robands, reef-points, reef-tackles for the courses and spilling-lines for the topsails, to say nothing of new sheets and clewlines fore and aft.
Pigot's floggings were so dreaded that the two hands farthest out, at the weather and lee earings, on the yardarm itself, leapt over the inner men to reach the backstays or shrouds, their downward path, missed their hold and fell to the quarterdeck.