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filling away

filling away is the present participle and gerund of fill away.

Meaning of fill away

Verb

fill away (third-person singular simple present fills away, present participle filling away, simple past and past participle filled away)

  1. Let the wind fill the sails of a sailing ship and start sailing.
    • It was just dinner-time when we filled away; and the steward, taking a few bunches of onions for the cabin, gave the rest to us, with a bottle of vinegar.1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC

Questions about filling away

What is filling away the present participle and gerund of?
Filling away is the present participle and gerund of fill away.

Words near filling away in the dictionary

  1. filligree
  2. filligreen
  3. filligrees
  4. fillin'
  5. filling
  6. filling away
  7. filling gas
  8. filling gases
  9. filling in
  10. filling in the blank
  11. filling in the blanks

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