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rossing

rossing is the present participle and gerund of ross.

Meaning of ross

Verb

ross (third-person singular simple present rosses, present participle rossing, simple past and past participle rossed)

  1. (US, dialectal, transitive) To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface.
    • to ross bark

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Questions about rossing

What is rossing the present participle and gerund of?
Rossing is the present participle and gerund of ross.

Words near rossing in the dictionary

  1. Rossignols
  2. Rossiia
  3. Rossiian
  4. Rossiians
  5. Rossija
  6. rossing
  7. Rossington
  8. Rossinian
  9. rossite
  10. Rossiter
  11. Rossiter-McLaughlin effect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rossing (page history and authors); ross (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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