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cockbilling

cockbilling is the present participle and gerund of cockbill.

Meaning of cockbill

Verb

cockbill (third-person singular simple present cockbills, present participle cockbilling, simple past and past participle cockbilled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To tilt up one end of, so as to make almost vertical.
    • to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning
  2. (archaic, transitive) To suspend (the anchor) from the cathead im preparation for letting it go.

Questions about cockbilling

What is cockbilling the present participle and gerund of?
Cockbilling is the present participle and gerund of cockbill.

Words near cockbilling in the dictionary

  1. Cockaynes
  2. cockbag
  3. cockbags
  4. cockbill
  5. cockbilled
  6. cockbilling
  7. cockbills
  8. cockbird
  9. cockbirds
  10. cockbiting
  11. cockblock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cockbilling (page history and authors); cockbill (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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