As true nouns. / As gerunds. / Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.

Used to form present participles of verbs.

(no longer productive) Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.

(archaic) Used to form present participles and verbal nouns; and, (dialectal) circumfixed to words which function as part of a verb phrase (e.g. “he went a-hunting”)

(now only in dialects) A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.

The letter for the ng sound /ŋ/ in Pitman shorthand.

plural of ing

A surname.

present participle of RV

present participle of DIY