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forelifting

forelifting is the present participle and gerund of forelift.

Meaning of forelift

Verb

forelift (third-person singular simple present forelifts, present participle forelifting, simple past and past participle forelifted)

  1. (obsolete) To lift up in front.
    • So dreadfully he towards him did pas, / Forelifting up aloft his speckled brest […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about forelifting

What is forelifting the present participle and gerund of?
Forelifting is the present participle and gerund of forelift.

Words near forelifting in the dictionary

  1. forelie
  2. forelies
  3. forelife
  4. forelift
  5. forelifted
  6. forelifting
  7. forelifts
  8. forelight
  9. forelights
  10. forelike
  11. foreliked

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