bearin'

bearin'

English

Verb

bearin'

1. Eye dialect spelling of bearing.
   • 1900, W. F. Shannon, "Recollections of Jim Twelves Tra’ned Man and A.B", Navy & Army Illustrated, volume XI, page 367:

     Found anythink bearin’ on it?

   • 1908, The Scrap Book: Second Section, volume V, page 637:

     But I got somethin’ to say bearin’ on that swindler who got what was comin’ to him.

   • 2002, Anthony Kaufman, Steven Soderbergh: Interviews‎, page 146:

     Before he got to the house, hit had him around the shoulders an’ was bearin’ down on him so hard that he jes’ couldn’t go.

Anagrams

• abrine, barnie, berain, braine, erbian, inbear, nebari