queening

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queening - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Queen \Queen\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Queened; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Queening.] (Chess.)
     To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion)
     of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
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  Queening \Queen"ing\, n. [See Queen apple.] (Bot.)
     Any one of several kinds of apples, as summer queening,
     scarlet queening, and early queening. An apple called the
     queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.
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