sponging
English
Verb
sponging
- present participle of sponge
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island – I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!
Noun
sponging (plural spongings)
- The application of a sponge.
- 1815, William Shearman, New Medical and Physical Journal
- I have employed cold air, and very often spongings with cold water, in order to moderate the preternatural heat of the skin, and to check the increased velocity of the circulation.
- 1815, William Shearman, New Medical and Physical Journal
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