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dillue

dillue verb: sift with a sieve.

Verb

dillue (third-person singular simple present dillues, present participle dilluing, simple past and past participle dillued)

  1. Sift with a sieve.
  2. Separate ore with by sieving.

Forms of dillue

third-person singular presentdillues
present participledilluing
past participledillued
pastdillued

Origin of dillue

From Cornish dyllo (“sift with a sieve”).

Words formed from dillue

Questions about dillue

What does dillue mean?
Dillue means sift with a sieve.
What part of speech is dillue?
Dillue is a verb.
What is the past tense of dillue?
The past tense of dillue is dillued.

Words near dillue in the dictionary

  1. Dillow
  2. Dillows
  3. dills
  4. dillseed
  5. dillseeds
  6. dillue
  7. dillwad
  8. dillwads
  9. dillwater
  10. dillweed
  11. dillweeds

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