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Pas-tyming, ppl. a. [Cf. e.m.E. pastiming vbl. n. (a 1580) and Pastyme,v.] Pertaining to sport, sporting. —1606 Birnie Kirk-b. Pref.
In all campestrial prowes and pas-tyming exployts