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hand-signalling

hand-signalling is the present participle and gerund of hand-signal.

Meaning of hand-signal

Verb

hand-signal (third-person singular simple present hand-signals, present participle (US) hand-signaling or (UK) hand-signalling, simple past and past participle (US) hand-signaled or (UK) hand-signalled)

  1. To signal by hand.
    • Before the train passed over any of the level crossings on the branch, it came to a stand, and the guard went forward and hand-signalled it over.1953 November, John Bourne, “The Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744

Questions about hand-signalling

What is hand-signalling the present participle and gerund of?
Hand-signalling is the present participle and gerund of hand-signal.

Words near hand-signalling in the dictionary

  1. hand-shakers
  2. hand-signal
  3. hand-signaled
  4. hand-signaling
  5. hand-signalled
  6. hand-signalling
  7. hand-signals
  8. hand-sitter
  9. hand-sitters
  10. hand-sling
  11. hand-slings

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