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present participle and gerund of hum examples
comparative more humming, superlative most humming
Making a hum sound. examples
(archaic) Of ale or beer: very strong. quotations
But at night crowds of visitors called at his cot, / For he told a right marvellous tale; / Yet a stronger attraction by chance he had got, / A barrel of old humming ale.
1889, John Bickerdyke, The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History, page 13
plural hummings
The sound of something that hums; a hum. quotations examples
There are some contemporary additions to these scattered fragments from Shakespeare. Mostly they are songs; sometimes they are various screechings and hummings […]
1969 December 8, New York Magazine, volume 2, number 49, page 70