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Definition of Captaining
1. captain [v] - See also: captain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Captaining
Literary usage of Captaining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Polo by T. B. Drybrough (1898)
"3 —captaining a Team. TURNING now to the special duties of individual players,
I shall begin with the Back ; partly because consideration of his play leads ..."
2. Polo by T. B. Drybrough (1898)
"3 —captaining a Team. TURNING now to the special duties of individual players,
I shall begin with the Back ; partly because consideration of his play leads ..."
3. The Life, Trial, and Death of Francisco Ferrer by William Archer (1911)
"That means that we already have a tangible act of leadership (jefatura): the
captaining of a group, and appearing as the commander, superior, or the head of ..."
4. The Heart of the Country: A Survey of a Modern Land by Ford Madox Ford (1906)
"It was a leisure creation of Mr. TW Ln, whose real work is "captaining the fight
against the S Trust, the greatest combination of capital the world has seen ..."
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1897)
"John Lee of Farmington, Hartford Co., Conn., and His Descendants ; captaining
over 4000 Names. 2634-1897. Second Edition. First Edition by Sarah Marsh Lee ..."
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