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sending to dorse

sending to dorse is the present participle and gerund of send to dorse.

Meaning of send to dorse

Verb

send to dorse (third-person singular simple present sends to dorse, present participle sending to dorse, simple past and past participle sent to dorse)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete, slang, transitive) To throw (a person) onto their back; to knock out.
    • a. 1823, Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life
      Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.

Questions about sending to dorse

What is sending to dorse the present participle and gerund of?
Sending to dorse is the present participle and gerund of send to dorse.

Words near sending to dorse in the dictionary

  1. sending out for
  2. sending shivers down someone's spine
  3. sending someone packing
  4. sending someone to the showers
  5. sending to Coventry
  6. sending to dorse
  7. sending to the glue factory
  8. sending to the scaffold
  9. sending up
  10. sending word
  11. sending-off

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