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cattling up

cattling up is the present participle and gerund of cattle up.

Meaning of cattle up

Verb

cattle up (third-person singular simple present cattles up, present participle cattling up, simple past and past participle cattled up)

  1. (figuratively, rare, transitive) To gather (a group of people) together into a small space.
    • I think Scuba Du is the best operation we have dove with in Cozumel, others have been Dive Paradise and Scuba Cozumel at the Galapago. We were there in low season and had 4-6 divers per boat. I suspect they could have "cattled" us up in one or two boats but they put the whole fleet out.1997 December 23, Re: Cozumel Scuba Du, “William Seiffert, M.D.”, in rec.scuba.locations (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    crowd together

Questions about cattling up

What is cattling up the present participle and gerund of?
Cattling up is the present participle and gerund of cattle up.

Words near cattling up in the dictionary

  1. Cattley guava
  2. Cattley guavas
  3. cattleya
  4. cattleyas
  5. cattling
  6. cattling up
  7. catto
  8. cattobomancy
  9. Catton
  10. Cattons
  11. cattos

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