ing

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   northern English dialect: a low meadow, especially one beside a river and liable to flooding

   Mist drifted down the ing toward the frozen beck.

From Middle English ing or ynge and Old English ing or eng ('meadow'), from a Germanic word for low grassland. Cognates survive in Scandinavian and Dutch words for a meadow; in English the noun is chiefly northern and often appears in place names.

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