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colloping

colloping is the present participle and gerund of collop.

Meaning of collop

Verb

collop (third-person singular simple present collops, present participle colloping, simple past and past participle colloped)

  1. To cut into collops (thin slices)
    • This induced me to make a further trial, and to get some of them colloped as we do oysters in shells, I swallowed them up myself.1773, Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in many Considerable Parts of the World, page 385

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Questions about colloping

What is colloping the present participle and gerund of?
Colloping is the present participle and gerund of collop.

Words near colloping in the dictionary

  1. Collop Mondays
  2. colloped
  3. collophanite
  4. collophore
  5. collophores
  6. colloping
  7. collopping
  8. colloppings
  9. collops
  10. Collopy
  11. Collopys

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