Grounding [verb]

Definition of Grounding:

base, set; educate

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Sentence/Example of Grounding:

Grounding the keel, some of them gladly leaped out, feeling with inexpressible relief the solid strand beneath their feet.

After this grounding in agriculture, which all the boys must have, the student gets an introduction to the mechanical trades.

All, excepting the aged grandmother, spoke French, and the daughters had a thorough grounding in the literature.

A number of excellent sergeants and corporals did not have the necessary grounding to enable them to pass the examinations.

Friedrich, grounding partly on those Rhine aspects, has his own scheme laid for Campaign 1758.

In embroideries, as grounding or as pattern, gold gives the glory: “Her clothing is of wrought gold.”

The rest of the soldiers waited too, grounding arms—some in the roadway, others by the wall at the foot of which they had laid me.

The vessel sails as near the shore as possible without grounding, and then the passengers on board are carried to terra firma.

The enemy, of course, lost several boats by grounding and subsequent surrender on our coasts.

When the launch could approach no closer without grounding, he advised Brad and Dan to wade out.