greesings

Compare gree and grice.

greesings pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete) Steps.
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

     The next day, being the 14th of January, all the visitors (only Christopherson elect of Chichester, excepted) came to the King's college; where, first going into the church, and there making their prayers at the greesings, they so proceeded into the stalls, there sitting all the mass time […]

• egressing, niggeress