yarn
noun
thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
yarning
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present participleof yarn.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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It’s like a late-night D&M with a mate – only the mate is Nick Cave and we’re yarning with the lights up amid a cast of thousands.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2019
But throughout runs a vein of the old, Rocky Mountain, free-&-easy Fowler yarning.
From Time Magazine Archive
In some parts it is just about the best baseball yarning since the late great Ring Lardner put the cover on his typewriter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Merlyn's knack for livery yarning and his ability for introspection give the book its special quality: a fat, comercial novel with a lean, serious writer signaling wildly to get out.
From Time Magazine Archive
A deep shadow would have detached the forecastle head but for a length of luminous bulwark which still held it, and some quiet voices of men who were within the shadow, yarning.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
