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Earing vs Baring - What's the difference?

earing | baring |

As nouns the difference between earing and baring

is that earing is (nautical) a line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; also called head earing while baring is the act by which something is laid bare.

As a verb baring is

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earing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; also called head earing.
  • (nautical) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; also called reef earing.
  • (nautical) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
  • (archaic) A ploughing of land.
  • * Bible , Genesis xlv. 6.
    • Neither earing nor harvest.

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    baring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is laid bare.
  • * 2008 , Carolyn Arends, Wrestling with Angels: Adventures in Faith and Doubt (page 90)
    • These woods loom large in my history — they were the site of two clumsy first kisses, one heart-crushing breakup, and countless whispered barings of the soul — but they are even more solidly a part of my present.
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