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sidearming

sidearming is the present participle and gerund of sidearm.

Meaning of sidearm

Verb

sidearm (third-person singular simple present sidearms, present participle sidearming, simple past and past participle sidearmed)

  1. To throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
    • His interest, aside from slinging sinkers as a sidearming right-hander, was medicine.2009 March 19, Ben Shpigel, “Medicine’s Loss Could Be the Mets’ Gain”, in New York Times

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Questions about sidearming

What is sidearming the present participle and gerund of?
Sidearming is the present participle and gerund of sidearm.

Words near sidearming in the dictionary

  1. sideal
  2. sidearm
  3. sidearmed
  4. sidearmer
  5. sidearmers
  6. sidearming
  7. sidearms
  8. sideart
  9. sidebag
  10. sidebags
  11. sideband

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