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gassing (root: gas)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gassing has 2 senses
CIDE DICTIONARY
gassing, n.
- The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing. [1913 Webster]
- Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [1913 Webster]
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