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kelping

kelping is the present participle and gerund of kelp.

Meaning of kelp

Verb

kelp (third-person singular simple present kelps, present participle kelping, simple past and past participle kelped)

  1. (intransitive) To gather kelp.
    • Just before we reached Seward the pilot got a radio message that a fishing boat in Thumb Cove had some kelp […] Neither of us had ever kelped before but there wasn't much to it, and we started bringing in full boxes back to Eads' barge.2018, John Walter Sutherland, Resurrection Road, page 94

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Questions about kelping

What is kelping the present participle and gerund of?
Kelping is the present participle and gerund of kelp.

Words near kelping in the dictionary

  1. kelpfish
  2. kelpfishes
  3. kelpie
  4. kelpies
  5. Kelpin
  6. kelping
  7. kelps
  8. kelpware
  9. kelpwort
  10. kelpy
  11. Kels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kelping (page history and authors); kelp (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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