[f. TAX v. + -ING2.] That taxes, in various senses of the verb.
1798. Anti-Jacobin, xix. (1852), 84. Again the taxing-man [Pitt] appear’d—No deadlier foe could be.
1813. Scott, Lett. to Joanna Baillie, 10 Dec., in Lockhart. As to the taxing men, I must battle them as I can: they are worse than the great Emathian conqueror.
1859. Dickens, T. Two Cities, II. ix. All the taxing authorities were armed.
