noun. The action of one who pants; hard and hurried breathing, with heaving of the breast or sides.

noun. In iron ship-building, a distortion with an inward and outward motion: said of flat areas of plating of a vessel, particularly at the bows, when insufficiently supported by the framing against the pressure of waves and water when the vessel is pitching.

adjective. Breathing laboriously or convulsively.

noun. The act or process of breathing heavily, usually after exertion.

noun. Any fabric used to make trousers.

verb. Present participle of pant.

noun. any fabric used to make trousers

noun. breathing heavily (as after exertion)

"In the midst of pelting rain, which half-blinded him, swinging from side to side like a rapid and erratic pendulum, his torn hands paining him severely and his lungs panting from his exertions and panting from the very air which the wind sometimes blew into his mouth with strangling force, he finally arrived at the empty car."

breathing  cloth  external respiration  fabric  material  

chanting  decanting  enchanting  granting  implanting  

abrupt  agog  alacritous  all agog  animated  

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