Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sally
nounsallying (plural sallyings)
plural sallyings
- The act of one who sallies.
4 September 1798, Charles Brockden Brown, letter to William Dunlap Johnson & I are pretty well, but E H S, by midnight sallyings forth, sudden changes of temperature, fatigue & exposure to a noon day sun, is made sick.
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sallying. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sallying
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“sallying.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sallying. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sallying,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sallying.
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