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embattailing

embattailing is the present participle and gerund of embattail.

Meaning of embattail

Verb

embattail (third-person singular simple present embattails, present participle embattailing, simple past and past participle embattailed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements)
    • The glorious standard last to heav'n they spread, / With Peter's keys ennobled, and his crown, // With it seven thousand stout Camillo had, / Embattailed in walls of iron brown.1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, Book I, lxiv

Questions about embattailing

What is embattailing the present participle and gerund of?
Embattailing is the present participle and gerund of embattail.

Words near embattailing in the dictionary

  1. embathed
  2. embathes
  3. embathing
  4. embattail
  5. embattailed
  6. embattailing
  7. embattails
  8. embatteled
  9. embattle
  10. embattled
  11. embattlement

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