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pealing out

pealing out is the present participle of peal out.

Meaning of peal out

Verb

peal out (third-person singular simple present peals out, present participle pealing out, simple past and past participle pealed out)

  1. (intransitive) To ring loudly.
  2. (transitive) To cause a bell to ring loudly.
    • and lending their clear and joyous voices to the wild chorus of the vintage-song that their elders were pealing out;1838, Julia Pardoe, The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Volume 3, page 310

Questions about pealing out

What is pealing out the present participle of?
Pealing out is the present participle of peal out.

Words near pealing out in the dictionary

  1. pealess
  2. pealest
  3. pealeth
  4. pealike
  5. pealing
  6. pealing out
  7. pealings
  8. Peall
  9. Pealling
  10. Pealls
  11. peals

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