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stencilling

stencilling is the present participle and gerund of stencil.

stencilling is the alternative form of stenciling.

Meaning of stencil

Verb

stencil (third-person singular simple present stencils, present participle (US) stenciling or (UK) stencilling, simple past and past participle (US) stenciled or (UK) stencilled)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To print with a stencil.
    • Stencilled letters were used for words and phrases, as well as for captions for some of his stencil “prints,” print being used in the sense of a multicolor woodcut.2015, William Addison Dwiggins, edited by Dorothy Abbe, Stencilled Ornament and Illustration, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 53

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Meaning of stenciling

Noun

stenciling (plural stencilings)

  1. A work produced using a stencil.

Forms of stencilling

pluralstencillings

Questions about stencilling

What is stencilling the present participle and gerund of?
Stencilling is the present participle and gerund of stencil.

Words near stencilling in the dictionary

  1. stenciling
  2. stencilings
  3. stencilled
  4. stenciller
  5. stencillers
  6. stencilling
  7. stencillings
  8. stencilmaker
  9. stencilmakers
  10. stencilmaking
  11. stencils

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stencilling (page history and authors); stencil (page history and authors); stenciling (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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