bearin'

English

Verb

bearin'

Eye dialect spelling of bearing.
- 1900, W. F. Shannon, "Recollections of Jim Twelves Tra’ned Man and A.B", Navy & Army Illustrated, volume XI, page 367:
  Found anythink bearin’ on it?
- 1908, The Scrap Book: Second Section, volume V, page 637:
  But I got somethin’ to say bearin’ on that swindler who got what was comin’ to him.
- 2002, Anthony Kaufman, Steven Soderbergh: Interviews‎, page 146:
  Before he got to the house, hit had him around the shoulders an’ was bearin’ down on him so hard that he jes’ couldn’t go.

Anagrams

abrine, barnie, berain, braine, erbian, inbear, nebari

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