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sailorizing

sailorizing is the present participle and gerund of sailorize.

Meaning of sailorize

Verb

sailorize (third-person singular simple present sailorizes, present participle sailorizing, simple past and past participle sailorized)

  1. (dated, intransitive) To do the work of a sailor.
    • I have worked like a Trojan all day, and the idea is realized. Margaret helped me out with suggestions, and Tom Spink did the sailorizing. Over our head, from the jiggermast, the steel stays that carry the three jigger-trysails descend high above the break of the poop and across the main deck to...1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV
  2. (dated, transitive) To make (a person) into a sailor; to train in seamanship.

Questions about sailorizing

What is sailorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Sailorizing is the present participle and gerund of sailorize.

Words near sailorizing in the dictionary

  1. sailoring
  2. sailorings
  3. sailorize
  4. sailorized
  5. sailorizes
  6. sailorizing
  7. sailorless
  8. sailorlike
  9. sailorly
  10. sailorman
  11. sailormen

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