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searcing

searcing is the present participle and gerund of searce.

Meaning of searce

Verb

searce (third-person singular simple present searces, present participle searcing, simple past and past participle searced)

  1. (obsolete) To sift (through a sieve); to bolt.
    • My next Difficulty was to make a Sieve, or Searſe, to dreſs my meal, and to part it from the Bran and the Huſk, without which I did not ſee it poſſible I could have any Bread. […] I had nothing like the neceſſary Things to make it with—I mean fine thin Canvas, or Stuff, to ſearſe the Meal through.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 144

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Questions about searcing

What is searcing the present participle and gerund of?
Searcing is the present participle and gerund of searce.

Words near searcing in the dictionary

  1. searchlit
  2. searchroom
  3. searchrooms
  4. searcht
  5. searchy
  6. searcing
  7. searcloth
  8. searcloths
  9. Searcy
  10. Searcy County
  11. Searcys

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