flighting
- 1Present participle of flight.
The spin bowler kept the batsman guessing by flighting deliveries just outside off stump.
The agency is flighting the campaign in short bursts across the holiday season.
Note
Here the -ing belongs to a ball-game verb built on the noun flight. To flight a ball is to toss it up with extra airtime and spin, and more broadly to loft any throw or kick. The verb is transitive, so the participle usually takes an object (flighting the ball). As a gerund it can head a noun phrase instead: his flighting of the ball was masterly.
flighting is a form of flight
flight, verb: To throw, kick or bowl a ball so that it travels higher and more slowly through the air (in cricket, usually with extra spin). Full entry
- Spelling
- flight → flighting: add -ing
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