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- verb Present participle of
trout .
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Examples
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The problem with me nowadays is that as much as I want to go night "trouting," I just can't seem to stay up past 9.
Island Packet: Home 2008
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Please keep trouting out more cakes for our amusement.
The Readers Have Spoken Jen 2008
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I bit of leisurely tromping in the woods and some trouting will take my mind off the weather.
Cherry Blossom Season gregarious monk 2008
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I bit of leisurely tromping in the woods and some trouting will take my mind off the weather.
Archive 2008-04-01 gregarious monk 2008
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To his juvenile sports and exercises in the moor of Mearns, and his trouting excursions by the stream of the Humbie, and the four parish lochs, he has frequently referred in the pages of _Blackwood's
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Long, long ago, we possessed a favorite trout-rod fitted with a Hollow Butt, and so it is that whenever we see a Halibut, trouting comes to our mind.
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The inhabitants of Kelso ought to be full of gratitude to the Duke of Roxburghe, for he gave them, as a generous supplement to their free trouting, miles of the Teviot for salmon fishing.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior
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When you see "excellent trouting in a romantic mountain district" advertised in the papers, go somewhere else.
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In the past I have, indeed, seen something of Thames trouting, and though I have, by lack of opportunity, not engaged largely in it, yet have formed ideas upon the subject that may be formulated as a seasonable topic.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior
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The sun was now sinking in the west, and Marcus, laden with the results of his successful trouting, came whistling up to the farmhouse.
Hatty and Marcus or, First Steps in the Better Path Aunt Friendly
mollusque commented on the word trouting
The truth was that my heart had gone trouting with William, but it would have been too selfish to say a word even to one's self about spoiling his day. If there is one way above another of getting so close to nature that one simply is a piece of nature, following a primeval instinct with perfect self-forgetfulness and forgetting everything except the dreamy consciousness of pleasant freedom, it is to take the course of a shady trout brook.
--Sarah Orne Jewett, 1899, A Dunnet Shepherdess
January 28, 2010
bilby commented on the word trouting
*slap*
January 28, 2010