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waistings

waistings is the plural of waisting.

Meaning of waisting

Noun

waisting (plural waistings)

  1. That which goes at the waist (of a person, as on a garment, or of an object).
    • The decorative material used as waisting also served as a girdle for her midlife expansion.
  2. A failure in mechanical testing, where part of the testpiece becomes narrow.

Questions about waistings

What is waistings the plural of?
Waistings is the plural of waisting.

Words near waistings in the dictionary

  1. waisted drum
  2. waisted drums
  3. waister
  4. waisters
  5. waisting
  6. waistings
  7. waistless
  8. waistlessness
  9. waistline
  10. waistlined
  11. waistlines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waistings (page history and authors); waisting (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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