[f. LOAF sb.1 (sense 5).] intr. To form a loaf or ‘head.’ Hence Loafing (in 9 loaving), vbl. sb.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 552. The white cabbage cole … closeth or lofeth in June, July, and August.
1817–8. Cobbett, Year’s Resid. Amer. (1822), 67. The cabbages … were … earlier in loaving, than any of the rest of the plot.
