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machicolating

machicolating is the present participle and gerund of machicolate.

Meaning of machicolate

Verb

machicolate (third-person singular simple present machicolates, present participle machicolating, simple past and past participle machicolated)

  1. To furnish with machicolations.
    • The wide-wing’d sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower / That stood with open doors […]1871, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Last Tournament”, in Gareth and Lynette etc., London: Strahan, published 1872, page 116

Questions about machicolating

What is machicolating the present participle and gerund of?
Machicolating is the present participle and gerund of machicolate.

Words near machicolating in the dictionary

  1. Machiavels
  2. machicolade
  3. machicolate
  4. machicolated
  5. machicolates
  6. machicolating
  7. machicolation
  8. machicolations
  9. machicotage
  10. machicote
  11. machicotes

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