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embarning

embarning is the present participle and gerund of embarn.

Meaning of embarn

Verb

embarn (third-person singular simple present embarns, present participle embarning, simple past and past participle embarned)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To lay up in a barn.
    • The harvest this year was very late, but having beautiful weather for it, we accomplished it in quick time; I began to reap on the 4th Sept. and finished 109 acres of wheat, together with other grain, which was embarned in 24 days.1836, John Mockett, Mockett's Journal, page 69

Questions about embarning

What is embarning the present participle and gerund of?
Embarning is the present participle and gerund of embarn.

Words near embarning in the dictionary

  1. embarkment
  2. embarkments
  3. embarks
  4. embarn
  5. embarned
  6. embarning
  7. embarns
  8. embarras
  9. embarrased
  10. embarrasing
  11. embarrass

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embarning (page history and authors); embarn (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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