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pawling

pawling is the present participle and gerund of pawl.

Meaning of pawl

Verb

pawl (third-person singular simple present pawls, present participle pawling, simple past and past participle pawled)

  1. (transitive) To stop with a pawl.

See all 3 meanings of pawl

Proper noun capitalized: Pawling

Pawling

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.
  2. A town and village therein, in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

Origin of pawling

A variant of Paulin. In New York State, the name originated as a misprint of Pauling, which was never corrected.

Questions about pawling

What does pawling mean?
Pawling means a surname transferred from the given name.
What is pawling the present participle and gerund of?
Pawling is the present participle and gerund of pawl.
What part of speech is pawling?
Pawling is a proper noun.

Words near pawling in the dictionary

  1. Pawlik
  2. pawlike
  3. Pawlikowski
  4. Pawlikowskis
  5. Pawliks
  6. pawling
  7. Pawloski
  8. Pawloskis
  9. Pawlowski
  10. pawls
  11. Pawluski

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pawling (page history and authors); Pawling (page history and authors); pawl (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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