Definition of "deading" []

• Present participle of dead. (verb)

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• "Have you whines for my wedding, did you bring bride and bedding, will you whoop for my deading is a?"
• "The clearing is very laborious, though the labor is lessened and divided, by belting, and so "deading" the large trees."
• "By "deading" is meant killing the trees, by cutting a nick all round each, quite through the bark."