Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, in conic vaulting, where the axis is horizontal, the two surfaces which, if produced, would intersect the axis of the cone.
- noun A kind of early apple.
- noun Rural merrymaking at midsummer; a summer holiday.
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- verb Present participle of
summer . - noun An instance of spending the Summer, as for a vacation or for cooler weather.
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Examples
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They call their summering place Willow Camp, but their home is Elk Camp.
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
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Emanuel, born to an Israeli doctor who married a local woman after he moved to Chicago in the mid-1950s, speaks Hebrew and fondly recalls summering each year in Israel as a child - including just after the 1967 Six-Day War.
JTA - Recent News 2010
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Emanuel, born to an Israeli doctor who married a local woman after he moved to Chicago in the mid-1950s, speaks Hebrew and fondly recalls summering each year in Israel as a child - including just after the 1967 Six-Day War.
JTA - Recent News 2010
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Clothing options which serve the double-duty of covering you while proclaiming your "summering" nature include: ascots, nautical/whale-themed styling on pants, ties, or hats, salmon-colored anything (please, "Nantucket red") and topsiders and/or really worn out leather flip-flops protecting you from that totally not top-drawer dirt.
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After she hung up, we discussed how long she should have said I'd be gone; she smiled as she came up with the old expression: "summering" at the Cape.
Seasonal Verbiage 1 Dinosaur 2008
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After she hung up, we discussed how long she should have said I'd be gone; she smiled as she came up with the old expression: "summering" at the Cape.
Archive 2008-05-01 1 Dinosaur 2008
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They had left behind them the days of "summering" in some "quaint" little place they had "discovered" in the Dolomites or spending an entire season in Iceland.
The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994
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A classic with the moneyed set, letting friends know you're "summering" in the Hamptons instead of simply renting a house for a week, that you plan on "overnighting" with the yacht (or that you're going yachting to an overnight ...), or that "the club" you're referring to need never be named, as it could only refer to whichever one nearby precludes entry to certain ethnicities and forbids denim, means that your linguistic output will be cut in half while your smarm is doubled!
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I love the beach having grown up in MA. and summering in ME.
Spanish lessons 2009
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I love the beach having grown up in MA. and summering in ME.
Spanish lessons 2009
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