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cheese down

cheese down verb: to coil the tail of a rope on deck so as to present a neat appearance.

Verb

cheese down (third-person singular simple present cheeses down, present participle cheesing down, simple past and past participle cheesed down)

  1. To coil the tail of a rope on deck so as to present a neat appearance.

Forms of cheese down

third-person singular presentcheeses down
present participlecheesing down
past participlecheesed down
pastcheesed down

Questions about cheese down

What does cheese down mean?
Cheese down means to coil the tail of a rope on deck so as to present a neat appearance.
What part of speech is cheese down?
Cheese down is a verb.
What is the past tense of cheese down?
The past tense of cheese down is cheesed down.

Words near cheese down in the dictionary

  1. cheese cutters
  2. cheese dog
  3. cheese dogs
  4. cheese doodle
  5. cheese doodles
  6. cheese down
  7. cheese dream
  8. cheese dreams
  9. cheese eater
  10. cheese eaters
  11. cheese eating

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