Eating \Eat"ing\, n.
1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or
corroding.
2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good
eating. [Colloq.]
{Eating house}, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to
be eaten on the premises.
eating house
n : a building where people go to eat [syn: {restaurant}, {eating
place}]