entring

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A form of enter — To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundobsoleteparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of enter
    1 more example

    But there is now vſed of ſome, another maner of Surueying, Butting, Bounding, but ſpecially of entring of the ſame in theſe latter daies, wherof I would not haue you alſo ignorant, and that is in this forme: they enter ſeuerally euery mans Meſuage, or Tenement, and butte and bound firſt the Scite thereof accordingly, and then euen in the ſame enter all in one (infra) they doo particularly butte and bounde, and alſo enter euery mans Errable lande, alſo his Meadowes, Cloſes, and Paſtures, belongyng to euery of the ſame ſeuerall tenements, all together, and then ſet out the Rent in the right Margent thereof, and the fine and the Herriot therfore, to be due in the left Margent thereof, as for your inſtruction, I will ſet out hereafter onely one example.

    1588, Valentine Leigh, The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surueying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes: […], […] John Windet, for Andrewe Maunsell, […]
  2. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of entre

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Chicago

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