ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sallying

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Sallying is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of sally.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of sally.

More Meanings

  1. The act of one who sallies.

Example Sentences

4 September 1798, Charles Brockden Brown, letter to William Dunlap Johnson & I are pretty well, but E H S, by midnight sallyings forth, sudden changes of temperature, fatigue & exposure to a noon day sun, is made sick.

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