ppl. a. [f. CANKER v. + -ING2.] That cankers: see CANKER v.

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1388.  Wyclif, Pref. Ep. Jerome, vii. 69. Thorouȝ cancrynge rust [1382 rust wastynge].

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1513.  More, Rich. III. (1641), 439. Neither fretting time, nor cancaring oblivion.

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1673.  T. Monck (title), Cure for the Cankering Errors of the New Eutychians.

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1775.  Adair, Amer. Ind., 196. The rust it had contracted, through the fault of cankering time.

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1814.  Southey, Inscript., xxxvii. Wks. III. 158. A slow and cankering malady.

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1832.  Lander, Exped. Niger, I. i. 32. Cutlasses … half devoured with cankering rust.

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