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  • verb Present participle of frail.

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Examples

  • Something similar is still used by folk and country musicians who play in a style sometimes called frailing or clawhammer.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Something similar is still used by folk and country musicians who play in a style sometimes called frailing or clawhammer.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Something similar is still used by folk and country musicians who play in a style sometimes called frailing or clawhammer.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • His back generally kept fairly warm from one "frailing" to the next.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • His back generally kept fairly warm from one "frailing" to the next.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • But dad showed me a few of the old-time frailing or clawhammer banjo style tunes and one day he brought it to me and put it in my hands and said, son, I want you to learn to play this thing real well.

    Doc Watson: An Old-Time Folk Musician With Soul 2010

  • But dad showed me a few of the old-time frailing or clawhammer banjo style tunes and one day he brought it to me and put it in my hands and said, son, I want you to learn to play this thing real well.

    Doc Watson: An Old-Time Folk Musician With Soul 2010

  • But dad showed me a few of the old-time frailing or clawhammer banjo style tunes and one day he brought it to me and put it in my hands and said, son, I want you to learn to play this thing real well.

    Doc Watson: An Old-Time Folk Musician With Soul 2010

  • But dad showed me a few of the old-time frailing or clawhammer banjo style tunes and one day he brought it to me and put it in my hands and said, son, I want you to learn to play this thing real well.

    Doc Watson: An Old-Time Folk Musician With Soul 2010

  • But dad showed me a few of the old-time frailing or clawhammer banjo style tunes and one day he brought it to me and put it in my hands and said, son, I want you to learn to play this thing real well.

    Doc Watson: An Old-Time Folk Musician With Soul 2010

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  • See citation on clawhammer.

    February 3, 2009