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- verb Present participle of
fat .
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Examples
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I heaved the enormous pot toward the sink to strain into a container to go through the de-fatting process.
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I heaved the enormous pot toward the sink to strain into a container to go through the de-fatting process.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Of his co-mates on the throne the elder in rank was a west country baronet, who, not content with fatting beeves and brewing beer like his sires, aspired to do something for his country.
The Three Clerks 2004
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On this stage was a bed of straw on which lay a fatting Hog.
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On this Stage was a bed of Straw and on the Straw lay, a fatting hog.
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For the fatting of turkies sodden barley is excellent, or sodden oats for the first fortnight, and then for another fortnight cram them in all sorts as you cram your capon, and they will be fat beyond measure.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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_Of nourishing and fatting Herns, Puets, Gulls, and Bitterns.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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It involves, however, more systematic attention than farmers usually like to bestow, for it is necessary to employ a different ram for each purpose; that is, a native ram for a portion of the ewes to keep up the purity of the breed, and a foreign ram to raise the improved cross-bred animals for fatting either as lambs or sheep.
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As they reached the mud-walled village of Giangounta, one of the fatting pigs, which were to be given to King Dacha, became too fat to carry.
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I have charged nothing for hauling of grain, &c. as the feed or slop for milk cows, young cattle, and fatting cattle, will more than pay that expense.
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