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snelling

snelling is the present participle and gerund of snell.

Meaning of snell

Verb

snell (third-person singular simple present snells, present participle snelling, simple past and past participle snelled)

  1. (Scotland) To tie a hook to the end of a fishing line with a snell knot.
    • Can you show me how to snell a hook?

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Proper noun capitalized: Snelling

Snelling (plural Snellings)

  1. A surname.
  2. A census-designated place in Merced County, California, United States.

Forms of snelling

pluralSnellings

Questions about snelling

What does snelling mean?
Snelling means a surname.
What is snelling the present participle and gerund of?
Snelling is the present participle and gerund of snell.
What part of speech is snelling?
Snelling is a proper noun.

Words near snelling in the dictionary

  1. sneller
  2. Snellers
  3. snellest
  4. Snellgrove
  5. Snellgroves
  6. snelling
  7. Snellings
  8. snells
  9. Snellville
  10. Snellvilles
  11. snelly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snelling (page history and authors); Snelling (page history and authors); snell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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