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blecking

blecking is the present participle and gerund of bleck.

Meaning of bleck

Verb

bleck (third-person singular simple present blecks, present participle blecking, simple past and past participle blecked)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) To blacken.
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) To defile.
    • Þerfore ȝif oure prelatis or oþere prestis, whatevere þei ben, ben opinly blecked by sacrifise of maumetrie, as wiþ covetise, þat is opinly sacrifise of fals goddys, and oþere grete sinnes, as pride, symonye, and man-quellinge, glotonye, dronkenesse, and lecherie, by þe same skil tyþis or offringis...1382, John Wycliffe, A Petition to the King and Parliament; republished as chapter 33, in Thomas Arnold, editor, Select English works of John Wyclif, volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Tobit i....

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Questions about blecking

What is blecking the present participle and gerund of?
Blecking is the present participle and gerund of bleck.

Words near blecking in the dictionary

  1. blechnoside
  2. blechs
  3. blechy
  4. bleck
  5. blecked
  6. blecking
  7. Bleckley
  8. Bleckley County
  9. blecks
  10. bled
  11. bled dry

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