English Dictionary

lawing

名詞

スコットランド英語 イギリス英語 廃用

Going to law; litigation. / (UK, Scotland, obsolete) Money owed for a service rendered.

日本語の意味

訴訟、法的手続き / （英国、スコットランド、古語）提供されたサービスに対する未払いの金銭（債務）

When negotiations failed, their only option seemed to be lawing.

交渉が決裂したとき、彼らの唯一の選択肢は訴訟に持ち込むことのように思えた。

意味（1）

Going to law; litigation.

And in this distresse and necessitie it had beene verie requisit and needfull that the souldiers should haue taken vp their weapons , serued against the enimie , and haue defended Lawing woorse the common state

意味（2）

(UK, Scotland, obsolete) Money owed for a service rendered.

A shilling for breakfast, three shillings for dinner, including a pint of old port, eighteen-pence for a snug supper — such were the charges of the inn of Saint Ronan's under this landlady of the olden world, even after the nineteenth century had commenced ; and they were ever tendered with the pious recollection, that her good father never charged half so much, but these weary times rendered it impossible for her to make the lawing less.

lawings （ plural ）