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Barbadosed

Barbadosed is the simple past and past participle of Barbados.

Meaning of Barbados

Verb

Barbados (third-person singular simple present Barbadoses, present participle Barbadosing, simple past and past participle Barbadosed)

  1. (historical) To press-gang (force into naval service).
    • The Barbadian planters […] resorted to shipping in hundreds of Scottish and Irish soldiers who’d been taken prisoner during Oliver Cromwell’s conquest. When that supply ran out, they took to kidnapping children, so many that a new term was coined: “barbadosed” meant the same thing in the late...2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 7, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN

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Questions about Barbadosed

What is Barbadosed the simple past and past participle of?
Barbadosed is the simple past and past participle of Barbados.

Words near Barbadosed in the dictionary

  1. Barbados nut
  2. Barbados nuts
  3. Barbados threadsnake
  4. Barbados threadsnakes
  5. Barbados water
  6. Barbadosed
  7. Barbadoses
  8. Barbadosing
  9. Barbagallo
  10. Barbagallos
  11. Barbagia

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