queening Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
    queen.
  2. verb become a queen
    queen.
    • her pawn queened

WordNet

Queen"ing noun
Etymology
See Queen apple.
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913