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gridling

gridling is the present participle and gerund of gridle.

Meaning of gridle

Verb

gridle (third-person singular simple present gridles, present participle gridling, simple past and past participle gridled)

  1. To sing as a form of begging, especially to sing hymns badly with the aim of soliciting donations out of sympathy.
    • He also gridled sacred hymns in the streets, and sung sporting songs in the alehouses.1908, W. H. Davies, chapter 31, in The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

Questions about gridling

What is gridling the present participle and gerund of?
Gridling is the present participle and gerund of gridle.

Words near gridling in the dictionary

  1. gridlessness
  2. Gridley
  3. gridlike
  4. gridline
  5. gridlines
  6. gridling
  7. gridlock
  8. gridlocked
  9. gridlocking
  10. gridlocks
  11. gridpoint

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gridling (page history and authors); gridle (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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