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cairing

cairing is the present participle and gerund of cair.

Meaning of cair

Verb

cair (third-person singular simple present cairs, present participle cairing, simple past and past participle caired)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To carry.
  3. (dialectal, transitive) To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.

Questions about cairing

What is cairing the present participle and gerund of?
Cairing is the present participle and gerund of cair.

Words near cairing in the dictionary

  1. caire
  2. Cairene
  3. Cairenes
  4. Caires
  5. Caireses
  6. cairing
  7. cairn
  8. cairn terrier
  9. cairn terriers
  10. Cairn Water
  11. Cairnbulg

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cairing (page history and authors); cair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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