thrusting

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thrusting

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of thrust

noun thrustings

The motion by which someone or something thrusts. The coaxing tone in which he said these latter words might have failed in its object, if he had not accompanied them with sundry sharp jerks of his thumb over one shoulder, and with divers winks and thrustings of his tongue into his cheek, from which signals the damsel gathered that he sought to spe
dialectal, obsolete, rare The act of squeezing curd by hand, to expel the whey.
Similar: pressing
dialectal, obsolete, rare The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made. a. 1802, quoted in The Domestic Encyclopedia

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@misc{thrusting_2026,
  title = {thrusting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thrusting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}