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ankling

ankling is the present participle and gerund of ankle.

Meaning of ankle

Verb

ankle (third-person singular simple present ankles, present participle ankling, simple past and past participle ankled)

  1. (ambitransitive, slang) To walk.
    • Arvay’s tearful speech followed the usual pattern, and everybody said it was just fine. There had been nothing about the heathens of China, India and Africa wallowing around on the heavenly chairs, nor ankling up and down the golden streets.1948, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 1, in Seraph on the Suwanee, New York: HarperPerennial, published 1991, page 5
  2. To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.

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Questions about ankling

What is ankling the present participle and gerund of?
Ankling is the present participle and gerund of ankle.

Words near ankling in the dictionary

  1. ankleted
  2. anklets
  3. anklewarmer
  4. anklewarmers
  5. anklewear
  6. ankling
  7. anklong
  8. anklongs
  9. anklung
  10. anklungs
  11. Ankney

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ankling (page history and authors); ankle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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