Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Eating
Eat′ing (ēt′ĭng), 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.