Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Swarming and devastating like locusts.
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- adjective
Swarming anddevastating likelocusts .
Etymologies
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locust + -ing
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Examples
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The poor would go out a locusting, as they termed it: the bushes were covered; they took their (_haik_) garment, and threw it over them, and then collected them in a sack.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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