graving
/ˈɡɹeɪvɪŋ/noun, verb
graving is a noun meaning “The act of cleaning a ship's bottom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-A-V-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of graving is gravings.
What does graving mean?
noun
- 1
The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.
- 2
obsoleteAn engraving.
And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were gravings between the joinings.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of grave
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce graving?
- /ˈɡɹeɪvɪŋ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of graving
- gravings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is graving?
Graving appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).