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faseling

faseling is the present participle and gerund of fasel.

Meaning of fasel

Verb

fasel (third-person singular simple present fasels, present participle faselling, simple past and past participle faselled)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) To unravel or become frayed.
    • My sleve is fasylled: ma manche est rauelée.1530, John Palsgrove, Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse, Paris: Imprimerie nationale, page 546
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) To become confused or ravelled.
    • […] which hath fazled and entangled this Controverſie.1636, Thomas Goodwin, A Child of Light Walking in Darkness, London: J. G., page 89

Questions about faseling

What is faseling the present participle and gerund of?
Faseling is the present participle and gerund of fasel.

Words near faseling in the dictionary

  1. fascturbating
  2. FASD
  3. FASDs
  4. fasel
  5. faseled
  6. faseling
  7. faselled
  8. faselling
  9. fasels
  10. fases
  11. Fasgan'dufaru

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