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querning

querning is the present participle and gerund of quern.

Meaning of quern

Verb

quern (third-person singular simple present querns, present participle querning, simple past and past participle querned)

  1. (transitive) To grind; to use a quern.
    • He could almost set aside the longing for Eyjan that ever querned within him—almost—in this place so utterly sundered from everything of hers.1979, Poul Anderson, The Merman's Children, published 2011, unnumbered page

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Questions about querning

What is querning the present participle and gerund of?
Querning is the present participle and gerund of quern.

Words near querning in the dictionary

  1. querling
  2. querls
  3. quermassintegrals
  4. quern
  5. querned
  6. querning
  7. querns
  8. quernstone
  9. quernstones
  10. quero
  11. queros

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Adapted from Wiktionary: querning (page history and authors); quern (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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