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Barbadoses

Barbadoses is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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What is Barbadoses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Barbadoses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of Barbados.

Words near Barbadoses in the dictionary

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

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