vbl. sb. Obs. [f. prec. v. + -ING1.] Descending, descent; declivity.

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c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 984. At aualyng of an hulle; þe frensche han þey of-take.

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c. 1430.  Lydg., Bochas, I. i. (1544), 1 b. Rivers … In their upspringing and avayling down.

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1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. xviii. 23. They … ordeyned iii. great battelles, in the auaylynge of the hyll.

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