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zithering

zithering is the present participle and gerund of zither.

Meaning of zither

Verb

zither (third-person singular simple present zithers, present participle zithering, simple past and past participle zithered)

  1. To play a zither.
    • […] the fluting began again. Not alone this time, but, to Rosalie’s infinite surprise, accompanied on a zither. […] At this moment the fluting and zithering began again.1892, Edmund Gosse, chapter 3, in The Secret of Narcisse, New York: United States Book Company, page 100,102
  2. To make a sound similar to that made by a zither; to move while making such a sound.
    • Now [the wind] swithered through the badly-fixed windows, making zithering sounds as of an army of cold and frozen-out mosquitoes […]c. 1890, May Ostlere, Dead! London: Trischler, Chapter 3, p. 76

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Questions about zithering

What is zithering the present participle and gerund of?
Zithering is the present participle and gerund of zither.

Words near zithering in the dictionary

  1. zitface
  2. zitfaced
  3. zitfaces
  4. zither
  5. zithered
  6. zithering
  7. zitherist
  8. zitherists
  9. zitherlike
  10. zithern
  11. zitherns

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