vbl. sb. arch. or Obs. [f. BAWD v.2 + -ING1.] The practice of a bawd.
1676. Shadwell, Virtuoso, IV. Wks. I. 381. Their very art of … adorning women is implicit bawding.
1688. E. Ravenscroft, Lond. Cuckolds, 27. Formerly stil’d Bawding and Pimping … it is now a modish piece of service only.
