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caballing

caballing noun: secret plotting. Also the alternative form of cabbeling.

Noun

caballing (countable and uncountable, plural caballings)

  1. (dated) Secret plotting.
    • And lastly, the examinant saith, that from the beginning of these conversations with the said Mary Burton, about these plottings and caballings between the Hughsons and the negroes […]1810, Daniel Horsmanden, The New York Conspiracy
    • In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.1909, Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck

Also used as

caballing is also the alternative form of cabbeling.

caballing is also the present participle and gerund of cabal.

Forms of caballing

pluralcaballings
alternative formcabbeling

Questions about caballing

What does caballing mean?
Caballing means secret plotting.
What part of speech is caballing?
Caballing is a noun.
What is the plural of caballing?
The plural of caballing is caballings.

Words near caballing in the dictionary

  1. caballeroes
  2. caballeros
  3. caballers
  4. caballine
  5. caballine aloes
  6. caballing
  7. caballings
  8. caballito
  9. caballitos
  10. caballo
  11. caballoid

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