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Cleaning   /klˈinɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Cleaning  n.  
1.
The act of making clean.
2.
The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.


verb
Clean  v. t.  (past & past part. cleaned; pres. part. cleaning)  To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. (Colloq.)





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"Cleaning" Quotes from Famous Books



... one. I'm cleaning up our base of supplies at La Famine. We've got a small guard there. The main part of the ...
— The Road to Frontenac • Samuel Merwin
... dissenting folk. God forbid I should speak disrespectful of Master Thurstan and Miss Faith, though; I never think on them as Church or Dissenters, but just as Christians. But to come back to Jerry. First, I tried always to be cleaning at his back; but when he wheeled round, so as always to face me, I thought I'd try a different game. So, says I, 'Master Dixon, I ax your pardon, but I must pipeclay under your chair. Will you please to move?' Well, he moved; and by-and-by I was at him again with the same words; and ...
— Ruth • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... sitting in front of her tent in the sun, watching the cowboys sitting around their camp, weaving horsehair bridles, cleaning their guns, mending their clothes, and doing other things that fall to the ...
— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor
... the next morning he rose, and on his way to the street exchanged with the servants cleaning the hotel stairs the first of the gloomy 'Guten Morgens' which usher in the day at Carlsbad. They cannot be so finally hopeless as they sound; they are probably expressive only of the popular despair of getting through with them before night; but March ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... laborious, is generally performed now by the men, while the women do only the actual cleaning ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVI, 1609 • H.E. Blair


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