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  • verb Present participle of wireless.

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Examples

  • It was close on one o'clock when the "wirelessing" terminated.

    The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917

  • The _Wolf's_ success in capturing ships and evading hostile cruisers was certainly due to her intercepting apparently indiscriminate wirelessing between ships, and between ships and shore -- at one time in the Indian Ocean the _Wolf_ was picking up news in four languages -- and to her seaplane, which enabled her to scout thoroughly and to spot an enemy ship long before she could have been seen by the enemy.

    Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' Frederic George Trayes

  • German airplane hovered over the château, describing a half circle behind the Imperial battery, spotting its flash, and immediately wirelessing the location.

    S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant

  • Flying at a great height the air-squadron had passed over the warships, and had taken up their observation stations without being seen or heard by anyone on board the patrol-vessels immediately over the German batteries, they were cutting "figure eights" and describing seemingly erratic circles, while the observers, coolly wirelessing the results of the monitors 'shells, hardly heeded the furious fire directed upon them by the hostile anti-aircraft guns.

    The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917

  • In the event of their not discovering the Viking ship they were to spend not more than three days on the search, wirelessing the camp at the end of the third day for further instructions.

    The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898

  • 3.30 A.M. a huge Zeppelin flew across the British battle line, wirelessing down to any Germans still to the westward the best way to get home.

    Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

  • "But the bishop did a little wirelessing on his own account, definitely ascertained that the girl he had met on the boat was an impostor and then wired Julia Branner to meet him in Los Angeles, and, in Los Angeles, Bishop Mallory also found Janice Seaton, the real grandchild.

    The Case of the Stuttering Bishop Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1936

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