Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 5–7 elyng, 6–7 eling(e, 7 eyling, 9 dial. ealin. [perh. f. ele ‘wing,’ AISLE + -ING2.]

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  † 1.  ? An aisle or wing of a church. See AISLE 1. Obs.

2

1400.  Acct. Roll Vicars Choral, York, In emendatione i elyng’.

3

1528.  Test. Ebor., IX. 464. To be bur’ [in the church of Skipton] in the north elyng.

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  2.  A ‘lean-to’ or shed attached to a house. dial.

5

1625.  Court Roll, Wakefield, Partem i domus vocatam elinge.

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1875.  Lanc. Gloss., Ealin’, a shed set against another building … From the verb to heel or lean over.

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  † 3.  ? A ‘bay’ of a barn. Obs.

8

1662.  in N. Riding Rec., VI. 51. An eyling of a barn.

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