verb

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(sometimes figurative) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.

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To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.

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to pearl barley

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To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.

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To resemble pearl or pearls.

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To hunt for pearls

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to go pearling

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To dig the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.

noun

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The process by which grain is pearled.

Examples of pearling in a Sentence

There are in addition some pearling grounds in the Mergui Archipelago, which have a very recent history; they were practically unknown before 1890; in the early 'nineties they were worked by Australian adventurers, most of whom have since departed; and now they are leased in blocks to a syndicate of Chinamen, who grant sub-leases to individual adventurers at the rate of £25 a pump for the pearling year.

Mergui town has risen into prominence in recent years as the centre of the pearling trade in the neighbouring archipelago.

The pearling grounds were practically unknown in 1890, but in the following decade they produced pearls and mother-ofpeal shell of considerable value.

Pearling Industry.-The pearling grounds of Bahrein are in over six fathoms of water, mostly beyond the three-mile limit.

Some 4,500 boats employing some 75,000 men are employed in the pearling industry during the season, which lasts for almost three months, and can do little else but fish for the rest of the year.

The presence of shells of the pearl oyster, Pinctada radiata, in deposits at the site suggest an possible involvement in pearling.

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