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ear(3) (iou)



ear verb1 trans. Now arch. & dial.
[Old English erian = Old Frisian era, Old Saxon erian, Old High German erren, Old Norse erja, Gothic arjan, from Indo-European base repr. also by Latin arare.]
Plough, till (the ground); turn up by ploughing.
fig.: Shakespeare Anthony & Cleopatra The Sea..which they ear and wound With keels.