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shumacing

shumacing is the gerund of shumac.

shumacing is the present participle and gerund of shumac.

Meaning of shumac

Noun

shumac (plural shumacs)

  1. Dated spelling of sumac.
    • In dying a Cotton Gown Black. [...] For a gown, take half a pint of ground shumac and put it into a sieve, and place it in a pan; then pour boiling water on it, and let the shumac water run into the pan; then put in your gown, and let it steep for six hours; [...]1817, William Tucker, “On Dying Cottons, Dresses, Bed-furniture, &c. &c.”, in The Family Dyer and Scourer; being a Complete Treatise on the Whole Art of Cleaning and Dying: […], London: Printed for...

Origin of shumacing

From shumac + -ing.

Questions about shumacing

What is shumacing the gerund of?
Shumacing is the gerund of shumac.

Words near shumacing in the dictionary

  1. shulwaurs
  2. Shum
  3. Shum Chun
  4. shumac
  5. shumaced
  6. shumacing
  7. shumack
  8. shumacked
  9. shumacking
  10. shumacks
  11. shumacs

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