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soakings
n. (plural of soaking English)
Usage examples of "soakings".
The constant soakings in the boat had bleached most of the colour from the material, had stretched and shrunk the different kinds of the fabric.
Eight bells, and the starbowlines, after a trying watch with frequent trimming of sail, taking reefs in and shaking them out, with much toil and anxiety over the rain-water, separating the foul from the clean, and with very frequent soakings, hurried below through the downpour to drip more or less dry in their hammocks.