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carboying

carboying is the present participle and gerund of carboy.

Meaning of carboy

Verb

carboy (third-person singular simple present carboys, present participle carboying, simple past and past participle carboyed)

  1. (transitive) To bottle in a carboy.
    • Juice bottled or carboyed at this high temperature is difficult to cool rapidly because of the danger of breakage of glass.1936, New York (State) Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin (issues 658-679, page 14)

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Questions about carboying

What is carboying the present participle and gerund of?
Carboying is the present participle and gerund of carboy.

Words near carboying in the dictionary

  1. carboxytransferase
  2. carboxyvinyl
  3. carboxyyessotoxin
  4. carboy
  5. carboyed
  6. carboying
  7. carboys
  8. carbozole
  9. carbozoo
  10. carbrain
  11. carbrained

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