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wadsetting

wadsetting is the present participle and gerund of wadset.

wadsetting is the present participle and gerund of wadsett.

Meaning of wadset

Verb

wadset (third-person singular simple present wadsets, present participle wadsetting, simple past and past participle wadsetted)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) To mortgage land.
    • I thought I heard the footstep of the young portioner of Glaiketha; he'll be come to borrow gold and to wadset land.1822, Allan Cunningham, “Death of the Laird Of Warlsworm”, in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, volume 2, page 307

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Questions about wadsetting

What is wadsetting the present participle and gerund of?
Wadsetting is the present participle and gerund of wadset.

Words near wadsetting in the dictionary

  1. wadsets
  2. wadsett
  3. wadsetted
  4. wadsetter
  5. wadsetters
  6. wadsetting
  7. wadsetts
  8. Wadsley
  9. Wadsley Bridge
  10. wadsleyite
  11. wadsleyites

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