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humpbacking

humpbacking is the present participle and gerund of humpback.

Meaning of humpback

Verb

humpback (third-person singular simple present humpbacks, present participle humpbacking, simple past and past participle humpbacked)

  1. To hunt humpback whales.
    • The captain of the James Rodgers […] was an old hand at humpbacking […]1895, Charles Nordhoff, chapter 10, in Whaling and Fishing, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 191

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Questions about humpbacking

What is humpbacking the present participle and gerund of?
Humpbacking is the present participle and gerund of humpback.

Words near humpbacking in the dictionary

  1. humpback whales
  2. humpbacked
  3. humpbacked elves
  4. humpbacked salmon
  5. humpbacked salmons
  6. humpbacking
  7. humpbacks
  8. Humpdashian
  9. humpday
  10. humpdays
  11. humped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humpbacking (page history and authors); humpback (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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