Now dial. Also 6 lezing. [f. LEASE v.1 + -ING1.] Gleaning. Also concr. = leasing corn.
1534. Act 25 Hen. VIII., c. 1 Stat. Irel. (1678), 46. Many … persons … will not labour for their living, but have their sole respect to gathering and lezing of corn in harvest time.
1772. Graves, Spirit. Quixote, II. 255. How much might she earn a day, then, by her leasing?
c. 1825. Houlston Tracts, II. xlvii. 2. What was to become of the poor, now their leasing was all eaten and gone?
b. attrib., leasing-corn, wheat got by gleaning.
1857. Eliza Acton, Eng. Bread-bk., II. 138, note. The wheat … which her family have gleaned,—the leasing corn,—supposed to make the best bread of any.
