[f. LARD v. + -ING2.] Fattening (in trans. and intr. senses).

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xiv. 108. Th’ unweldy larding swine his mawe then having fild.

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c. 1630.  in Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 308 (1810), 315. Our lofty tower’d trees … Did to the savage swine let fall their larding mast.

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