Strewing
[stru:ɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strew
(n.) The act of scattering or spreading.
(n.) Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural.
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Examples
- I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strewing some heath under me, and slept pretty well. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Which he did, cherubically strewing the path with smiles, in the absence of flowers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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