eating
/ˈi.tɪŋ/ adjective A1- Bred to be eaten. · eating chickens; eating quails
- Suitable to be eaten without being cooked. · Wait! That's not an eating apple.
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It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
Teddy and his mother and father were there at early breakfast, but Rikki-tikki saw that they were not eating anything.
The ants are eating all the others down by the melon bed.”
“You’re not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming.
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