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  • verb dated Present participle of automobile.

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Examples

  • When Mr. Kirwan and his wife went "automobiling," they dressed in vintage dusters and goggles that would have been worn by a motorist of that era.

    C. Gordon Kirwan Jr., businessman, car enthusiast, dies at 84 2011

  • During the early days of automobiling, leaving town in a “horseless carriage” was a muddy ordeal.

    Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

  • And when she saw him pull her to him and asked her grandly if she had done much automobiling about Kansas City, she merely smiled to herself.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • Now, with a great deal of fuss the engine was reversed again, to run frontward, and the automobiling entourage also reversed.

    Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982

  • Clearly the makers of old-time guide-books must wake up, or everybody will take to automobiling, if only to have the right to demand one of these excellent guides.

    The Automobilist Abroad

  • The early days of automobiling were not fraught with so many technicalities as to-day, when the last new thing may be a benzine bus or a turbine trailer; formerly everything was simple and crude, -- and more or less inefficient.

    The Automobilist Abroad

  • Occasionally a real shell would come popping over from somewhere to tear a hole in the roadside to make our automobiling more difficult.

    New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various

  • All this had furnished at least variety, and, when it came to automobiling through Britain, it was merely going over well-worn ground that we had known in our cycling days, and usually we went merely where fancy willed.

    The Automobilist Abroad

  • If automobiling on land in France is a pleasure, a voyage up a picturesque and historic French river in a _canot-automobile_ is a dream, so at least we thought, four of us -- and a boy to clean the engine, run errands, and to climb overboard and push us off when we got stuck in the mud.

    The Automobilist Abroad

  • Even in the latter case he occasionally breaks away for a more or less extended period, and either goes fishing in Canada, shooting in Scotland, or automobiling in France, with perhaps a rush over a Swiss pass or two, and a dash around the Italian lakes, and back down the Rhine for a little tour in Great Britain.

    The Automobilist Abroad

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