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Eting, Eiting, vbl. n. Also: etinge, etting, -ynge, eitting, eat(t)ing, aitinge; etin, ettin, eittin. [ME. etynge, etinge (c 1175), f. Ete v.]

1. The act of taking food. 1456 Hay I. 300/29.
In thair maner of eting and drinking
Ib. II. 63/6.
In etyng and drinking that he be nocht glutoun
c1460 Consail Wys Man 188.
Tak not delyt in … Wntymous eting na drynkynge
1533 Gau 16/15.
Thay that fleis noth … inordinat eiting and drinkkine
1562 Reg. Privy C. I. 200.
All kyndis of flesche … growis out of seasoun, that thai ar nocht than meit for eiting
a1578 Pitsc. I. 147/2.
Gif ȝe had experience of eittin of women and mens flesche

2. The eating of grass or growing grain, etc., by horses or cattle.(a) 1389 Reg. Cambuskenneth 260.
The playnt … maid … of the eting of his part of the medo
1398 Acts I. 311/2.
Qwha fyndis hym agrevit … with … brynnyng or ettynge of the cuntre
1471 Acta Aud. 20/2.
The eting & distroying of thar gers
1479 Ib. 91/1.
The wrangwis … etting and distructione of hir cornis and medois
1541 Elgin Rec. I. 62.
The etting of thair cornis with thair awyn bestiall
1572 Reg. Privy C. II. 153.
That thay … forbear the etting and destructioun of cornis growand about this toun of Hammiltoun
1623 Misc. Hist. Soc. III. 277 n.
Giff it [the wood] be found war [= worse] be the aitinge of the guidis
1639 Reg. Great S. 322/1.
[Without] eating of the scheilling grasse or bringing of oxin or kyn thairintill
(b) 1473 Acta Aud. 26/2.
Anent the etin and distroying of certane corne … uppon the landis of Wistoune
1475 Prestwick B. Rec. 26.
In the ettin and distroyin of his rye … with hir swyne gangand lows
1523 Carnwath Barony Ct. ii.
Robert Levinston folloit in court Jhon Gyrdvod … for the … etin of his corn
1552 Ann. Banff I. 30.
That Johne Forsyth … suld pay iij firlottes bere for thair sueyne for the eittin of Petre Grantis corne
1594 Breadalbane Ct. Bk. 59 b.
The wrangus eittin be his gudis … of his hay and his thak

3. attrib. a. With buird, chalmer, roome, table. 1529 M. Works Acc. I. 21.
The Kingis awine eting chalmeris in the abbay
1583 Rep. Elphinstone Mun. 22.
Ane eatting buird, … tua greit cope buirdis
1613 Conv. Burghs II. 430.
The Maister of the Consergerie to caus hing ane box above ilk ane of the eitting taibles
1613 Northern N. & Q. I. 74.
Chalmeirs to be ordinaire eitting roomes
1653 Soc. Ant. XXIII. 305.
A halfe folding table, with a eating table
1690 Leven & Melv. P. 485.
Brought him up the bake stairs to the eating rome

b. With butter, scheip. 1547 Reg. Cupar A. II. 236.
Als mony eittin scheip as ples my lord to send vp ȝerely for thair gressum
1573 Acts III. 83/2.
That nane of the subiects … transport … ony maner of … eitting butter

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