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skilleting

skilleting is the present participle and gerund of skillet.

Meaning of skillet

Verb

skillet (third-person singular simple present skillets, present participle skilleting, simple past and past participle skilleted)

  1. (US) To cook in a skillet.
    • Now that the season has arrived in many parts of the country for the nimrods to load their trusty Thirty-Thirties and go forth in quest of the elusive deer, it seems an appropriate time to say a word about the skilleting of venison — which can be a pretty tough and dry proposition if not properly...1960, The Cattleman, volume 47, page 46

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Questions about skilleting

What is skilleting the present participle and gerund of?
Skilleting is the present participle and gerund of skillet.

Words near skilleting in the dictionary

  1. skillet bread
  2. skillet breads
  3. skillet corn bread
  4. skillet corn breads
  5. skilleted
  6. skilleting
  7. skillets
  8. skillful
  9. skillfulest
  10. skillfull
  11. skillfully

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