borning
See also: børning
English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editborning
- present participle and gerund of born
Adjective
editborning (not comparable)
- In the process of being born.
- 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 332:
- While yanking a borning calf from its mother's womb Moore suffered a bizarre and fatal accident: the cord arted abruptly, sending my owner in a sprawl backward until his head fetched up against a post and cracked open like a melon.