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rustings

rustings is the plural of rusting.

Meaning of rusting

Noun

rusting (plural rustings)

  1. The development of rust on a surface.
    • An example will best make the matter clear, and throw light, perhaps, on many cases of apparently mysterious rustings.1899, Scientific American, volume 81, page 309
  2. The phenomenon where the fur of a black cat develops a brown colour when exposed to sunlight.

Questions about rustings

What is rustings the plural of?
Rustings is the plural of rusting.

Words near rustings in the dictionary

  1. rustiness
  2. rusting
  3. rusting off
  4. rusting out
  5. rusting through
  6. rustings
  7. Rustins
  8. rustique
  9. rustle
  10. rustle someone's jim-jams
  11. rustle someone's jimmies

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