Usage examples:

• Ah I may never such for me O'er- fertile prove, or make too stout a show At the first earing Virgil in "The Georgics".

• The studding- sail boom of the foreyard, which had been carelessly left out, had been broken off short in the earing from the pressure of the wind on the bare spar. William James Stillman in "The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I".

• 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." Virginia Watson in "The Princess Pocahontas".