For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
After taking the second, and getting a good pull on it, the first earing rendered suddenly, and, losing his balance, he fell over the yard.
An earing is a rope to haul up the outer part of a sail.
Springtime and the sowing of the corn are full of delight, yet I look forward eagerly to the earing of the corn and the fall of the leaf.
Earing from the main rigging whither he had leaped, like a tiger who had bounded on his prey.
Earing faced his Commander in silence, perfectly conscious that nothing he could utter contained an argument like this.
He even saw Earing waving his hand, in adieu, with a seaman's heart, and like a man who not only felt how desperate was his situation, but one who knew how to meet his fate with resignation.
In the mean time, Earing proceeded steadily to perform what he had just promised.
Earing exclaimed, after a long, meditative pause, and with a voice in which distrust, or rather awe, was beginning to get the ascendancy.
Earing presuming on his rank to be the first of the two to speak.
Earing recoiled a step, with a submissive manner, and affected to be lost in consulting the driving masses of the clouds; then, summoning his resolution, he attempted to renew the attack in a different quarter.
Calling Earing to his side, he pointed out the danger, and gave the necessary order.
Shakspeare The weight of the tempest had been felt at that hapless moment when Earing and his unfortunate companions were precipitated from their giddy elevation into the sea.
Wilder, seizing the bewildered Earing by the arm, as the latter rushed madly up the steep of the deck; "it is our duty to be calm: Bring hither an axe.
If his sails had been materially increased, the distance and the obscurity prevented even the understanding Earing from detecting it.
For the sheet must be hauled right in, and cannot be eased while the earing is being made fast.
He also goes aloft to reef a course, and takes the weather earing of that, in the same manner.
At sea, the lee earing is cast off first, rousing in the lee body of the sail, and securing it by the earing to the buntlines.
Then haul out the head of the sail by the peak-earing, which is passed like the head-earing of a topsail.
Bend a line to the lee head-earing and let it go, haul the sail well up to windward, and make fast the lee earing to the buntlines.
So, also, in their duties aloft; if they are favored, they may be kept at the royals and topgallant sails, and gradually come to the earing of a mizzen topsail.
Pass the end of the earing through the cringle next above its own, and make it fast slack to its own part by a bowline knot.
If both topsails are reefed at once, he goes to the main; but if one sail is reefed at a time, he goes with the men from one to the other, taking the weather earing of each.
I passed the weather-earing of the mizen-top-sail when we had been out a fortnight, and went to those of the fore and main before we crossed the line.
He was a shrewd observer of men and things, this new friend of mine, and I believe understood "by the cut of his jib" that Rupert was not likely to make a weather-earing man.
Hardly was the jib secured before the great mainsail ripped open from top to bottom, and in the same puff the close-reefed foretopsail split in two with a bang, from earing to earing.
About noon the close-reefed foretopsail burst open from earing to earing, and then ripped up to the yard, the corners stretching out before the wind and cracking like musket shots.
Wally held out his case-hardened hand and received half a dozen cats, for which it is earing a good deal that they made the recipient dance.
The serang himself lay out on the weather yard-arm, and I saw him, earing in hand, working away actively with the rest.
His figure did not appear well suited for going aloft, and yet no man could more quickly overhaul the weather earing in a heavy gale than he could.
Earing from the main-rigging, whither he had leaped, like a tiger who had bounded on his prey.
Wilder, seizing the bewildered Earing by the arm, as the latter rushed madly up the steep of the deck; "it is our duty to be calm; bring hither an axe.
He even saw Earing waving his hand in adieu with a seaman's heart, like a man who not only felt how desperate was his situation, but who knew how to meet it with resignation.
Then come in and get another earing for the luff, Bob, and hurry up!
The outer turns of the earing serve to extend the sail outwards along its yard.
In reefing top-sails, the cry when the weather earing is passed.
Each man holding by a reef-point helps it over, as the lee-earing cannot be passed until the man to windward calls out, "Haul out to leeward.
This is placed on the upper side of the gaff, to pass the outer earing round from the cringle.
Also, small wedges of wood fastened on the yards, to keep ropes or the earing of the sail from slipping off the yard.
To move or lift anything along; as "light over to windward," the cry for helping the man at the weather-earing when taking in a reef.
A reef-band that crosses a sail from the outer head-earing to the tack diagonally, making it nearly triangular, and is used to contract it in very blowing weather.
It is intended for the men at the earing in reefing, or when setting the top-gallant-studding-sails.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
