eared

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English

Etymology

From ear +‎ -ed.

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Adjective

eared (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly in combination) Having ears (of a specified type).
    He was a large-eared man.
    • 1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift,  (First Quarto), London: Thomas Creede, for Tho Millington, and Iohn Busby , published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B, verso:
      What doſt thou puſh, thou prickeard cur of Iſeland?
    • 1796, Nicholas Brady, Nahum Tate, A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Church, London: H.D. Symonds, Psalm, 126 verse 6, p. 81:
      Tho' he despond that sows his grain, / To bind his full-ear'd sheaves, and bring / from long captivity,
    • 1835, William Wordsworth, "On a High Part of the Coast of Cumberland," line 19-20, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited by William Knight, Volume VII, London: Macmillan & Co., 1896,
      Teach me with quick-eared spirit to rejoice / In admonitions of thy softest voice!
    • 1879, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published , London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 41:
      Towery city and branchy between towers; / Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; / The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did / Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; []
    • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished : Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 103:
      He might have flinched altogether from speaking if at this moment he had not seen Ampleforth, the hairy-eared poet, wandering limply round the room with a tray, looking for a place to sit down.
    • 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Perennial Classics, 2002, Part Two, Chapter 28, p. 305,
      Some of his rural clients would park their long-eared steeds under the chinaberry trees in the back yard, and Atticus would keep appointments on the back steps.

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eared

  1. simple past and past participle of ear

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