Scoring
['skɔːrɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Score
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scorn
Checker: Percy
Examples
- He was a slow sailer on a wind of happiness, but he took a cross cut for the rendezvous, and pegged away as if he were scoring furiously at cribbage. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All was white, icy, pallid, save for the scoring of black rocks that jutted like roots sometimes, and sometimes were in naked faces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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