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umbelapping

umbelapping is the present participle and gerund of umbelap.

Meaning of umbelap

Verb

umbelap (third-person singular simple present umbelaps, present participle umbelapping, simple past and past participle umbelapped)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To enshroud, to envelop; to surround.
    • For hit is a figure that haldes · five pointes, / And eche line umbelappes · and loukes in other, / And aywhere hit is endeles; · and Englich hit callen / Overal, as I here, · the endles knot.[late 14th century, [anonymous], “Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight”, in Boris Ford, Francis Berry, editors, The Age of Chaucer […] (Pelican Guide to English Literature; I; Penguin Books; 290) (in...
    Synonyms:
    belap, encompass, enwrap, lap

Questions about umbelapping

What is umbelapping the present participle and gerund of?
Umbelapping is the present participle and gerund of umbelap.

Words near umbelapping in the dictionary

  1. umbel
  2. umbelap
  3. umbelappe
  4. umbelapped
  5. umbelappes
  6. umbelapping
  7. umbelaps
  8. umbeled
  9. umbella
  10. umbellae
  11. umbellar

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