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Barbadosing

Barbadosing is the present participle and gerund 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 Barbadosing

What is Barbadosing the present participle and gerund of?
Barbadosing is the present participle and gerund of Barbados.

Words near Barbadosing in the dictionary

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

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