Sc. and north. Forms: 4–5 lon(n)yng(e, 6–7 loning, 8 lownin, 7– loaning. [f. LOAN sb.2 + -ING1.]
1. = LOAN sb.2 1. † Free loaning: a right of way.
1324. MS. Charter (penes W. Greenwell of Durham), Le Lonnynge quod ducit usque Charlawe.
1370. Durham Halm. Rolls (Surtees), 60. Injunctum est omnibus tenentibus quod faciant les lonyngs.
1475. Extracts Burgh Rec. Peebles (1872), I. 175. Accepand a fre lonyng throw the sayde auche to Glentras as efferis to the town to haf of law.
1502. Will, in Ripon Ch. Acts, 356. Brakan more lonyng.
1597. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1860), 341. To the loning that lyethe betwex Lumley parke paile and Lamb felds.
1610. N. Riding Rec., I. 199. For not repayring the loning betwene Earbie and West Ronckton.
1832. Act 2 & 3 Will. IV., c. 65 § 5. Any distance to be measured along any street, lane, or loaning.
1862. M‘Cosh, Supernat. in relat. to Natural, I. v. 92. We steal away through some green loaning.
1893. Crockett, Stickit Minister, 114. Leaning on the gate at the head of the loaning.
2. = LOAN sb.2 2.
c. 1750. Miss Elliot, Song, The Flowers of the Forest, i. But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, let. ii. See not a Dulcinea in every slipshod girl, who drives … out the village cows to the loaning.
1882. Jas. Walker, Jaunt to Auld Reekie, etc., 38. Crummies rootin up the loanin’ Wi weel-filled baggies.
3. attrib., as loaning-end; loaning-dike, a wall dividing the arable land from the pasture.
1383. Durham Halm. Rolls (Surtees), 177. De ten. villæ quia noluerunt facere le lonyngdiks juxta Bishoplaw.
1596. Reg. Mag. Sig. (1890), 160/2. 6 rudas terrarum … inter … lie Ovir Frankland ex australi, lie loning-dyke ex occidentali.
1895. Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, xxxv. 256. Every day the old man passed this loaning-end.
