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dackling

dackling is the present participle and gerund of dackle.

Meaning of dackle

Verb

dackle (third-person singular simple present dackles, present participle dackling, simple past and past participle dackled)

  1. (Scotland) To slacken pace; to hesitate.
    • Sometimes we ran, sometimes we gaed; Whiles dackled on the way.1869, William Knight, Auld yule, and other poems (ed. by W. Lindsay), page 225

Questions about dackling

What is dackling the present participle and gerund of?
Dackling is the present participle and gerund of dackle.

Words near dackling in the dictionary

  1. dacked
  2. dacking
  3. dackle
  4. dackled
  5. dackles
  6. dackling
  7. dacks
  8. DACL
  9. daclatasvir
  10. daclizumab
  11. DACLs

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