watercressing

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From watercress +‎ -ing (participle).

watercressing

present participle and gerund of watercress
- 1911, Benjamin Bickley Rogers, transl., The comedies of Aristophanes, volume 4, page 66:
  What are you watercressing for?
- 1991, Fred Archer, Grain and Chaff Under the Hill, page 94:
  He used to brag that the ladder had four rounds and that he stood on the middle one when he was watercressing.

From watercress +‎ -ing.

watercressing (plural not attested)

The act or process of gathering watercress.
- 2016, H. E. Bates, “Oh! Sweeter Than The Berry”, in The Song of the Wren:
  I'll lock up and go watercressing. Or mushrooming. Or some damn thing.