tithing

noun

1. A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):

   “I prayed for the sick and saw some of them healed under my hands. I was given tithings of money and food by people who had not enough to eat themselves.”

2. A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
3. A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
4. (dialectal)Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).

   “I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold tithings barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils”

5. (historical)A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.
6. (historical)A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of tithe