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floting

floting is the present participle and gerund of flote.

Meaning of flote

Verb

flote (third-person singular simple present flotes, present participle floting, simple past and past participle floted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To fleet; to skim.
    • seald their Milk before they flote it1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...

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Questions about floting

What is floting the present participle and gerund of?
Floting is the present participle and gerund of flote.

Words near floting in the dictionary

  1. flotilin
  2. flotilla
  3. flotillas
  4. flotillin
  5. flotillins
  6. floting
  7. flotorial
  8. flotsam
  9. flotsam and jetsam
  10. flotsams
  11. flotson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floting (page history and authors); flote (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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