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cottering

cottering is the present participle and gerund of cotter.

Meaning of cotter

Verb

cotter (third-person singular simple present cotters, present participle cottering, simple past and past participle cottered)

  1. (transitive) To fasten with a cotter.
    • She found Esco by the barn. He was trying to cotter a cart-wheel with a peg he had whittled from a locust branch, driving it in with a hand sledge1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 39

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Questions about cottering

What is cottering the present participle and gerund of?
Cottering is the present participle and gerund of cotter.

Words near cottering in the dictionary

  1. cottered
  2. Cotterell
  3. Cotterells
  4. Cotteridge
  5. Cotterill
  6. cottering
  7. cotterless
  8. Cotterman
  9. Cottermans
  10. cotters
  11. cottery

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