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pall

/pɔl/ verb C2
  1. To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. (transitive)

He/she/it palls · Past palled · Past participle palled · -ing form palling

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Verb forms

Base form
pall
He/she/it
palls
Past
palled
Past participle
palled
-ing form
palling

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In a very few moments it was necessary for Elaine to scramble to her feet, pick up her cloth of gold coverlet and pall of blackest samite and gaze blankly at a big crack in the bottom of her barge through which the water was literally pouring.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 223 · C1
His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 2 · B2
We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 221 · C1
I took a cab after that and reached my brother’s rooms in Pall Mall, where I spent the day.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 111 · B2

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