dirging

English

Verb

dirging

1. present participle and gerund of dirge

Adjective

dirging (not comparable)

1. Sung as a dirge; sounding as a dirge.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 186:

     But the oaks' dirging melody no longer moaned for him; to-day she caught her own sad reflex in their shivering lament.

Anagrams

• girding, griding, ridging