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encoaching

encoaching is the present participle and gerund of encoach.

Meaning of encoach

Verb

encoach (third-person singular simple present encoaches, present participle encoaching, simple past and past participle encoached)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To place or carry in a coach.
    • When, with my Minds right Eye, I do behold
      (From nought, made nothing lesse) great Tamburaline,
      (Like Phaeton) drawne, encoach in burnisht Gold,c. 1605, John Davies of Hereford, Wittes Pilgrimage

Questions about encoaching

What is encoaching the present participle and gerund of?
Encoaching is the present participle and gerund of encoach.

Words near encoaching in the dictionary

  1. encluding
  2. enclusion
  3. encoach
  4. encoached
  5. encoaches
  6. encoaching
  7. encoat
  8. encoated
  9. encodabilities
  10. encodability
  11. encodable

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