tithing

noun7

1. •
   The payment of tithes.
2. •
   The collection of tithes.
3. •
   A tithe or tenth in its various senses.
4. •
   The tithe given as an offering to the church.

   • I prayed for the sick and saw some of them healed under my hands. I was given tithings of money and food by people who had not enough to eat themselves. — 1998
5. •
   (historical) A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.
6. •
   (historical) A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
7. •
   (dialect) Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).

   • I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold tithings barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils — 1934