▪ I. hasting, vbl. n.
(ˈheɪstɪŋ)
[f. haste v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb haste; making haste, speeding; expedition, acceleration.
| a 1350 Childh. Jesu 1590 (Mätz.) Þo Josep was comen in hastingue. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. iv. (1495) 224 The cause of hastynge of Manasses deth. ? a 1400 Arthur 377 Bedwer wyþ alle hastynge Tolde Arthour alle þis þynge. 1568 Knt. of Curtesy 25 He praieth you in all hastynge To come in his court for to dwell. |
▪ II. hasting, ppl. a. and n.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
A. ppl. a.
1. That hastes, speeding: see the verb.
| 1632 Milton Sonn. ii, My hasting days fly on with full career. 1870 Emerson Misc. Papers, Plutarch Wks. (Bohn) III. 343 To keep up with the hasting history. |
† 2. That ripens early: applied to varieties of fruit or vegetables. Obs.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xxxv. 52 The huskes be..like a great hasting or garden pease. 1611 Cotgr., Hastiveau..a hasting apple, or peare. 1719 London & Wise Compl. Gard. 243 How to raise hasting Strawberries. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Hasting Pear,..It ripens in July. |
B. n. [ellipt. use of the adj.]
† 1. An early-ripening fruit or vegetable; spec. a kind of early pea. Obs. (or now only local).
| 1573 Tusser Husb. xviii. (1878) 45 Sowe hastings now, if land it alow. 1585 Higins tr. Junius' Nomenclator 101/2 Ficus præcox. Figue hastive. A rathe fig ripened before the time: an hasting. 1664 Butler Hud. ii. Ep. to Sidrophel 22 To cry Green-Hastings. 1727 Pope, etc. Art of Sinking 115 Common cryers..persuade people to buy their oysters, green hastings, or new ballads. 1878 Science Gossip Aug. 190 A day or two since I heard the cry ‘Green Hastings!’..fifty years ago, it was the usual cry for green peas. |
† 2. Applied to persons who hasten or make haste (with allusion to prec. sense). Only in pl.
| 1546 J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 35 Toward your woorkyng ye make such tastingis, As approue you to be none of the hastingis. 1581 [see harding]. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Sussex (1811) II. 385 Now men commonly say they are none of the Hastings, who, being slow and slack, go about business with no agility. a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, You are none of the Hastings, of him that loses an Opportunity..for want of Dispatch. |