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nursled

nursled is the simple past and past participle of nursle.

Meaning of nursle

Verb

nursle (third-person singular simple present nursles, present participle nursling, simple past and past participle nursled)

  1. (archaic) To nurture, train, raise (a person).
    • the late borne childe […] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about nursled

What is nursled the simple past and past participle of?
Nursled is the simple past and past participle of nursle.

Words near nursled in the dictionary

  1. nursing pads
  2. nursingly
  3. nursings
  4. nursingwear
  5. nursle
  6. nursled
  7. nursles
  8. nursling
  9. Nursling and Rownhams
  10. nurslings
  11. nurst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nursled (page history and authors); nursle (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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