Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Avering
subs. (old).—See quot.
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1695. KENNETT, Lansdowne MS., 1033. When a begging boy strips himself and goes naked into a town with a fals story of being cold, and stript, to move compassion and get better cloaths, this is call’d AVERING, and to goe a AVERING.
