disgorging
English edit
Verb edit
disgorging
- present participle and gerund of disgorge
Noun edit
disgorging (plural disgorgings)
- The act of something being disgorged.
- 1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC:
- Noisome disgorgings of surfeits and drunkennesses.
- 1869, William Joseph Flagg, Three Seasons in European Vineyards, page 108:
- Two and often three disgorgings and recorkings are needed before it is safe to send out for sale.