manœuvring

Verb

manœuvre (third-person singular simple present manœuvres, present participle manœuvring, simple past and past participle manœuvred)

1. Dated spelling of manoeuvre.
   • We can ask how long it was before the team scored its first goal; or how long the centre-forward spent in manœuvring the ball towards the goal; and even how long the ball was in flight between his kicking it and its going between the goal-posts. But we cannot ask how many seconds were occupied in...1954, Gilbert Ryle, “dilemma vii: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page 103

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