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ungirthing

ungirthing is the present participle and gerund of ungirth.

Meaning of ungirth

Verb

ungirth (third-person singular simple present ungirths, present participle ungirthing, simple past and past participle ungirthed)

  1. To unfasten or remove a girth or belt from.
    • Suffice it that the Lord Abbot had ordered these, our zealous and faithful vassals, instantly to set forth to guard thee from imminent peril–Ye may ungirth your horses, children, and dismiss; and, tomorrow, each who was at this rendezvous may send to the convent kitchen for a quarter of a yard of...1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Monastery

Questions about ungirthing

What is ungirthing the present participle and gerund of?
Ungirthing is the present participle and gerund of ungirth.

Words near ungirthing in the dictionary

  1. ungirlishly
  2. ungirly
  3. ungirt
  4. ungirth
  5. ungirthed
  6. ungirthing
  7. ungirths
  8. ungivable
  9. ungive
  10. ungiveable
  11. ungiven

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ungirthing (page history and authors); ungirth (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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