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sponsoning

sponsoning is the present participle and gerund of sponson.

Meaning of sponson

Verb

sponson (third-person singular simple present sponsons, present participle sponsoning, simple past and past participle sponsoned)

  1. (often, transitive) To mount on a projection on the side of a vessel.
    • The belted cruiser Pamiat Azova or Remembrance of Azoff, is 377 feet long. She is an improved Dmitri Dontskoi, and carries her two 8-inch guns in sponsoned barbettes on either broadside1899, John Scott-Keltie, editor, Statesman's Year-Book 1899

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Questions about sponsoning

What is sponsoning the present participle and gerund of?
Sponsoning is the present participle and gerund of sponson.

Words near sponsoning in the dictionary

  1. sponsions
  2. Sponsler
  3. Sponslers
  4. sponson
  5. sponsoned
  6. sponsoning
  7. sponsons
  8. sponsor
  9. sponsor-free
  10. sponsorable
  11. sponsored

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sponsoning (page history and authors); sponson (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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