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3 words match “BIRDING”

BIRDING n.
Birdcatching or fowling. Shak. Birding piece, a fowling piece. Shak.
BLACKBIRDING n. 2 definitions
The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.
A prep.
s in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expr…