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Spitting

//ˈspɪtɪŋ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    expectoration archaic

    "Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting; all of them were stone-workers."

  2. 2
    the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) wordnet
  3. 3
    An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal. uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of spit form-of, gerund, participle, present

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