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colporting

colporting is the present participle and gerund of colport.

Meaning of colport

Verb

colport (third-person singular simple present colports, present participle colporting, simple past and past participle colported)

  1. To work as a colporteur

Questions about colporting

What is colporting the present participle and gerund of?
Colporting is the present participle and gerund of colport.

Words near colporting in the dictionary

  1. colported
  2. colporter
  3. colporters
  4. colporteur
  5. colporteurs
  6. colporting
  7. colports
  8. colporus
  9. colposcope
  10. colposcopes
  11. colposcopic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colporting (page history and authors); colport (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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