Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of prolong
nounprolonging (plural prolongings)
plural prolongings
- prolongation
the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
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