golding

• (Received Pronunciation, UK) enPR: gōlʹdĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊldɪŋ/

First attested circa 1580; formed as gold +‎ -ing.

golding (plurals include the standard and regularly formed goldings, as well as the obsolete goldinges)

1. (obsolete) A gold coin.
2. (obsolete) A kind of apple; a goldling.
3. (Britain, North Midlands dialectal) The corn marigold (Glebionis segetum).
4. (in the Kent dialectal) The ladybird (family Coccinellidae).

• “† Go·lding” listed on page 282 of volume IV (F and G), § ii (G) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1901]
    † Go·lding. Obs. [f. Gold¹ + -ing³. [¶] The form still occurs in north midland dialects as a name of the marigold, in Kent of the ladybird.] [¶] 1. A gold coin. [¶] c 1580 Jefferie Bugbears i. i. 77 in Archiv Stud. d. neu. Spr. (1897) XCVIII. 306 His goldinges that he kepes in prison. [¶] 2. A kind of apple. (See Goldling.) [¶] 1589 Rider Eng.–Lat. Dict. s.v. Apple, Summer Goldings..Winter Goldings. 1648–60 Hexham Dutch Dict., Guldelingh, A Golding, an apple so called.
• “†ˈgolding¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

First attested in 1798; from the surname (Golding) of the man who developed the sub-variety (in 1790).

golding (plural goldings)

1. A kind of red hop, a sub-variety of the Canterbury hop.

• (hop): golding hop, golding vine

• “ˈgolding²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

gold (“pyrolyse food to a golden brown”) +‎ -ing

golding

1. present participle of gold

• dogling, godling, lodging