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entrailing

entrailing is the present participle and gerund of entrail.

Meaning of entrail

Verb

entrail (third-person singular simple present entrails, present participle entrailing, simple past and past participle entrailed)

  1. (archaic) To interweave or bind.
    • And in the thickest covert of that shade / There was a pleasant arbour, not by art / But of the trees' own inclination made, / With wanton ivy twine entrailed athwart, / And eglantine and caprifole among, / Fashioned above within their inmost part / That neither Phoebus' beams could through them...1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III Canto VI
  2. To outline in black.
    • A cross entrailed.

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Questions about entrailing

What is entrailing the present participle and gerund of?
Entrailing is the present participle and gerund of entrail.

Words near entrailing in the dictionary

  1. entractes
  2. entrada
  3. entradas
  4. entrail
  5. entrailed
  6. entrailing
  7. entrails
  8. entrain
  9. entrainability
  10. entrainable
  11. entrained

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