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sheepdogging

sheepdogging is the present participle and gerund of sheepdog.

Meaning of sheepdog

Verb

sheepdog (third-person singular simple present sheepdogs, present participle sheepdogging, simple past and past participle sheepdogged)

  1. To chaperon or shepherd.
    • Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN

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Questions about sheepdogging

What is sheepdogging the present participle and gerund of?
Sheepdogging is the present participle and gerund of sheepdog.

Words near sheepdogging in the dictionary

  1. sheepcots
  2. sheepdip
  3. sheepdips
  4. sheepdog
  5. sheepdogged
  6. sheepdogging
  7. sheepdogs
  8. sheepdom
  9. sheepe
  10. Sheepeater
  11. Sheepeaters

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