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beagling

beagling is the present participle and gerund of beagle.

Meaning of beagle

Verb

beagle (third-person singular simple present beagles, present participle beagling, simple past and past participle beagled)

  1. To hunt with beagles.
    • […] reading men who beagled for fresh air and exercise, impecunious hunting men who beagled for economy[…]1933, Charles Pascoe Hawkes, Heydays: a salad of memories and impressions, page 20
  2. To search.
    • […]Pope clapped his hand to his forehead and beagled like a maniac; he had clean forgotten Thorofare Gap.1997, Fletcher Pratt, A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire, page 150

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Questions about beagling

What is beagling the present participle and gerund of?
Beagling is the present participle and gerund of beagle.

Words near beagling in the dictionary

  1. beagles
  2. Beagley
  3. Beagleys
  4. beaglier
  5. beagliers
  6. beagling
  7. beags
  8. Beahm
  9. Beahms
  10. Beaird
  11. Beairds

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