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pillowing

pillowing is the present participle and gerund of pillow.

Meaning of pillow

Verb

pillow (third-person singular simple present pillows, present participle pillowing, simple past and past participle pillowed)

  1. (transitive) To rest as on a pillow.
    • ...but Lucy was too thoroughly exhausted to awaken. There she lay, her head pillowed upon her arm, like a child that had cried itself to rest; while Francesca bent over her,...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 73

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Noun

pillowing (countable and uncountable, plural pillowings)

  1. Material used to make pillows.

Forms of pillowing

pluralpillowings

Questions about pillowing

What does pillowing mean?
Pillowing means material used to make pillows.
What is pillowing the present participle and gerund of?
Pillowing is the present participle and gerund of pillow.
What part of speech is pillowing?
Pillowing is a noun.
What is the plural of pillowing?
The plural of pillowing is pillowings.

Words near pillowing in the dictionary

  1. pillowest
  2. pilloweth
  3. pillowful
  4. pillowfuls
  5. pillowiness
  6. pillowing
  7. pillowings
  8. pillowless
  9. pillowlike
  10. pillows
  11. pillowsful

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