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gitterning

gitterning is the present participle and gerund of gittern.

Meaning of gittern

Verb

gittern (third-person singular simple present gitterns, present participle gitterning, simple past and past participle gitterned)

  1. To play on the gittern.
    • c. 1639-1640. John Milton, The Cambridge Manuscript; Excerpts from pages 35-41, as Reprinted in David Masson, editor & author, The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time; Volume II, London and New York.: MacMillan and Co...

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Questions about gitterning

What is gitterning the present participle and gerund of?
Gitterning is the present participle and gerund of gittern.

Words near gitterning in the dictionary

  1. Gittens
  2. Gittenses
  3. Gitter
  4. gittern
  5. gitterned
  6. gitterning
  7. gitterns
  8. Gitters
  9. gitties
  10. gittim
  11. gittin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gitterning (page history and authors); gittern (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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