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pectinating

pectinating is the present participle and gerund of pectinate.

Meaning of pectinate

Verb

pectinate (third-person singular simple present pectinates, present participle pectinating, simple past and past participle pectinated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To fit together in an alternating manner; to interlock or interdigitate.
    • To ſet croſſe legg’d, or with our fingers pectinated or ſhut together is accounted bad, and friends will perſwade us from it.1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiouſly of many queſtionable cuſtomes, opinions, pictures, practiſes, and popular obſervations”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward...

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Questions about pectinating

What is pectinating the present participle and gerund of?
Pectinating is the present participle and gerund of pectinate.

Words near pectinating in the dictionary

  1. pectinate line
  2. pectinate lines
  3. pectinated
  4. pectinately
  5. pectinates
  6. pectinating
  7. pectination
  8. pectinations
  9. pectine
  10. pectineal
  11. pectinei

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