haling
haling is the present participle and gerund of hale.
Meaning of hale
Verb
hale (third-person singular simple present hales, present participle haling, simple past and past participle haled)
- To drag or pull, especially forcibly.
- For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 6, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
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- What is haling the present participle and gerund of?
- Haling is the present participle and gerund of hale.
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