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fewtering

fewtering is the present participle and gerund of fewter.

Meaning of fewter

Verb

fewter (third-person singular simple present fewters, present participle fewtering, simple past and past participle fewtered)

  1. (transitive) To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
    • His speare he feutred, and at him it bore, / But with no better fortune than the rest afore.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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What is fewtering the present participle and gerund of?
Fewtering is the present participle and gerund of fewter.

Words near fewtering in the dictionary

  1. fewte
  2. fewter
  3. fewtered
  4. fewterer
  5. fewterers
  6. fewtering
  7. fewterlock
  8. fewterlocks
  9. fewters
  10. fewtrils
  11. Fexhe-le-Haut-Clocher

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