Earing

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Earing - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

An Old English word (from the Latin aro, I plough), meaning "ploughing." It is used in the Authorized Version in Gen. 45:6; Ex. 34:21; 1 Sam. 8:12; Deut. 21:4; Isa. 30:24; but the Revised Version has rendered the original in these places by the ordinary word to plough or till.

Earing - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

E'ARING, n. In seamen's language, a small rope employed to fasten the upper corner of a sail to its yard.

E'ARING, n. A plowing of land. Gen 44.

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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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