[f. prec. sb.] To sell by auction. Hence Auctioneering vbl. sb.
a. 1733. North, Lives (1826), III. 290. Mills, with his auctioneering, atlasses and projects, failed.
1785. Cowper, Task, III. 756. Estates are landscapes, gazed upon awhile, Then advertised, and auctioneer’d away.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, 456. Argentarius … combined auctioneering with banking.
