Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Rising
quasi-adv. (colloquial).—1. Upwards of; and (2) approaching to.
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1853. REV. E. BRADLEY (‘Cuthbert Bede’), The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, I. 7. When Mr. Verdant Green was (in stable language] RISING sixteen.
