lip
noun
either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
were lipping
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past progressiveof lip.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But now, swollen with spring rains, the ditches of the Sunk were lipping to the overflow.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
