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caudling

caudling is the present participle and gerund of caudle.

Meaning of caudle

Verb

caudle (third-person singular simple present caudles, present participle caudling, simple past and past participle caudled)

  1. (transitive) To make into caudle.
  2. (transitive) To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
    • Will the cold brook, / Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste, / To cure thy o'ernight's surfeit?c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act 4, scene 3, lines 226–228

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Questions about caudling

What is caudling the present participle and gerund of?
Caudling is the present participle and gerund of caudle.

Words near caudling in the dictionary

  1. caudle
  2. caudle cup
  3. caudle cups
  4. caudled
  5. caudles
  6. caudling
  7. caudo-
  8. caudocentral
  9. caudocephalad
  10. caudocephalic
  11. caudocranial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caudling (page history and authors); caudle (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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