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courbing

courbing is the present participle and gerund of courb.

Meaning of courb

Verb

courb (third-person singular simple present courbs, present participle courbing, simple past and past participle courbed)

  1. (obsolete) To bend; to bow.
    • Thanne I courbed on my knees · and cryed hir of grace.c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I

Questions about courbing

What is courbing the present participle and gerund of?
Courbing is the present participle and gerund of courb.

Words near courbing in the dictionary

  1. courbashes
  2. courbed
  3. Courbetian
  4. courbette
  5. courbettes
  6. courbing
  7. courbs
  8. cource
  9. Courcelles-le-Comte
  10. Courchaine
  11. Courchaines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: courbing (page history and authors); courb (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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