claying
SayKLAY-ing/ˈkleɪ.ɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of clay.
Claying the sandy topsoil helped the new pasture hold water through the summer.
Workers at the refinery were claying the raw sugar to purify it before sale.
Note
Two practical jobs meet in this form: spreading clay onto something, and purifying something with clay. It follows be in progressive tenses (they were claying the field) and also names the activity as a noun (claying is slow work). Both verbs behind it are transitive, so in the progressive an object follows: the soil that gets the clay, or the sugar being cleaned.
claying is a form of clay
clay, verb: To add clay to something, or to spread a layer of clay over it. Full entry
- Spelling
- clay → claying: add -ing
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