Crossword clues for umpiring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Umpire \Um"pire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Umpired; p. pr. & vb. n. Umpiring.]
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To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute.
Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.
--South. To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of umpire English)
Usage examples of "umpiring".
For three innings neither side scored, and in the fourth each got a man across the plate, but in the fifth the All-Americas increased their score by seven runs, and the crowd, evidently thinking that the game was over, swarmed across the field like an army of Kansas grasshoppers, and Ward, ordering his men into their positions, claimed the game of Tener, who was umpiring, which the latter gave him by a technical score of 9 to 0, the score books showing 8 to 2.