compinge
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin compingere.
Verb
compinge (third-person singular simple present compinges, present participle compinging, simple past and past participle compinged)
- (obsolete) To compress; to shut up.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compinge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) compinge