harping

Also har·pin

[hahr-ping]

noun

Shipbuilding.

1. any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.

Other Word Forms

• unharping adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of harping¹

1620–30; perhaps harp + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

"They are harping on about getting more disabled people in employment," she said.

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"We need reinforcements, but I don't want to keep harping on about it. I don't need to beg for players that we need."

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Fetterman might have his vacation top of mind, but other Pennsylvania Democrats are still harping on the potential harm of the bill.

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Will, who works for an environmental nonprofit, argues that humans won’t be able to recycle their way out of the crisis and that harping on personal responsibility only lets corporate perpetrators off the hook.

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The answer is that Republicans’ endless harping on patriotism has been a performative camouflage and effective inoculation against un-American acts.

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