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clattawa-ing

clattawa-ing is the present participle and gerund of clattawa.

Meaning of clattawa

Verb

clattawa (third-person singular simple present clattawas, present participle clattawa-ing, simple past and past participle clattawa-ed)

  1. (obsolete, rare, west coast North America: British Columbia to Oregon) To go; depart, leave.
    • From the above, our friends in the States will readily see that we are not only blessed with a rich soil, and superior mineral wealth, but a climate infinitely superior to that of their present abode. Pack up, therefore, ye frozen tillicums and clatawau over to Oregon.1850, Working Farmer, vol. 1-4, page 175

Questions about clattawa-ing

What is clattawa-ing the present participle and gerund of?
Clattawa-ing is the present participle and gerund of clattawa.

Words near clattawa-ing in the dictionary

  1. Clatsop
  2. Clatsop County
  3. Clatsops
  4. clattawa
  5. clattawa-ed
  6. clattawa-ing
  7. clattawas
  8. clatted
  9. Clattenburg
  10. clatter
  11. Clatterbuck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clattawa-ing (page history and authors); clattawa (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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