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inspanning

inspanning is the present participle and gerund of inspan.

Meaning of inspan

Verb

inspan (third-person singular simple present inspans, present participle inspanning, simple past and past participle inspanned)

  1. (transitive) To yoke (oxen).
    • There was no time to inspan the oxen[…]1917, H. Rider Haggard, Finished, Kessinger, published 2004, →ISBN, page 39
  2. To bring or force into service.

Questions about inspanning

What is inspanning the present participle and gerund of?
Inspanning is the present participle and gerund of inspan.

Words near inspanning in the dictionary

  1. insp
  2. insp.
  3. inspake
  4. inspan
  5. inspanned
  6. inspanning
  7. inspans
  8. inspeak
  9. inspeaking
  10. inspeaks
  11. inspecific

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inspanning (page history and authors); inspan (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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