Also 7 eare. [f. EAR sb.2] intr. Of corn: To produce ears, come into ear.

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1442.  Three K. Cologne (Bedf. MS.), vii. [In Palestine] atte Cristemasse barly bygynneth to ere.

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1610.  G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., in Farr’s S. P. (1848), 56. Thou with corn canst make this stone to eare.

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1776.  Barker, in Phil. Trans., LXVI. 373. The barley … not earing well on account of the dry season.

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1797.  Holcroft, Stolberg’s Trav. (ed. 2), III. lxxvii. 157. The rye was … beginning to ear.

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