sb. pl. Obs. or dial. [AFTER adv. + -ING1. Cf. innings.]
1. The last strainings of milk from a cow. dial.
1796. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, xxii. 354. Put one large spoonful of steep to five quarts of afterings.
1882. in N. & Q., VI. VI. 54. The first milk drawn from the cow is the poorest … the latest drawn milk, called the ‘afterings,’ is the richest.
† 2. Remaining dregs, after the main part is exhausted. Obs.
1609. Bp. Hall, Serm., 36. These are the ὑστερήματα, afterings of Christ’s sufferings.
