ing local.
(ɪŋ)
Forms: 5 enge, 5–6 ynge, 6 yng, 7– ing(e.
[a. ON. eng f., enge, engi neut. (Da. eng, Sw. äng), meadow, meadow-land; co-radicate with OHG. angar, MHG. anger grass land, meadow-land. (Not recorded in OE.)]
A common name in the north of England, and in some other parts, for a meadow; esp. one by the side of a river and more or less swampy or subject to inundation.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 115/1 Enge, vbi a medew. 1494 in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 261 Elsay ynges. 1583 Ibid. 381 A lease of Swilinge yng; the lease of Bushop yng. 1626 Quarter Sessions Rec. III. (North Riding Rec. Soc.) 14 A common waie for leading corne and haie for the inhabitants of Great Broughton from their inges and feildes to the said towne, and for their cariages to the mill. 1663 MS. Indenture, Barlby, Yks., 2 half acres of meadow in the broad ing in Angram. 1793 Act 33 Geo. III, c. xci. title, An act for dividing..the commons and waste grounds and ings, or meadow grounds, within the township of Knottingley, in the west riding of the county of York. 1828 Craven Dial., Ing, a marshy meadow. 1848 C. Brontë J. Eyre ix, Mists as chill as death..rolled down ‘ing’ and holm till they blended with the frozen fog of the beck. 1851 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. ii. 314 Others [Fens] termed ‘ings’, belonging to various towns, yet remain (at particular seasons) in a wet condition. 1875 Parish Sussex Gloss., Ing, a common, pasture, or meadow. c 1890 Newspr., This morning there is fully 5 ft. of ‘fresh’ in the Derwent, and the river is still rising. In the ings and marshes of the East Riding the river is over the banks. |
b. attrib., as ing ground, ing land.
| 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 32 In a moist yeare hard-lande-grasse proveth better then carres, or ing-growndes. 1794 Act Inclosing S. Kelsey 2 Carr Lands, Ing Lands..and Furze Leas, within the said Manor. |