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Webster 1828 Edition


Circling

CIRCLING

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ppr.
Surrounding; going round; inclosing.

CIRCLING

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Adj.
Circular; round.

Definition 2024


circling

circling

English

Verb

circling

  1. present participle of circle

Noun

circling (plural circlings)

  1. A circular motion.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
      [] one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings.