Queening

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Queen \Queen\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Queened}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Queening}.] (Chess.)
     To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion)
     of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Queening \Queen"ing\, n. [See {Queen apple}.] (Bot.)
     Any one of several kinds of apples, as {summer queening},
     {scarlet queening}, and {early queening}. An apple called the
     queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.
     [1913 Webster]