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- verb Present participle of
noose .
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Examples
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Rodiyas, the only tribe who will touch a dead carcase, to whom, therefore, the duty is assigned of preparing the fine flexible rope for noosing, which is made from the fresh hides of the deer and the buffalo.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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“And now fill your glass again, Captain; I am going to make you happy; I am going to let you into a secret — a plot — a noosing plot — only the noose is but typical.”
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FERNANDO MATEO, HISPANICS ACROSS AMERICA: Those days of noosing, hanging and torturing should be a thing of the past.
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FERNANDO MATEO, HISPANICS ACROSS AMERICA: Those days of noosing, hanging and torturing should be a thing of the past.
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FERNANDO MATEO, HISPANICS ACROSS AMERICA: Those days of noosing, hanging and torturing should be a thing of the past.
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Now, I don't think anyone harks back fondly on the place where their first psychic break took place, but when Bill (in the apartment upstairs) had his Rod Stewart's Greatest Hits on repeat in the piss-smelling sweltering balm of New York summer, I felt like noosing myself.
romulan ale 2007
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Now, I don't think anyone harks back fondly on the place where their first psychic break took place, but when Bill (in the apartment upstairs) had his Rod Stewart's Greatest Hits on repeat in the piss-smelling sweltering balm of New York summer, I felt like noosing myself.
texodus 2007
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They are also taken by spearing, by snaring, by noosing, and by netting.
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Tat – tat – ko, or rod for noosing wild fowl, 16 feet long, vide p. 310. 2.
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As I completed noosing my tie, Jeeves insinuated himself into the room, and I hid my face from him.
Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004
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