English
Verb
inching
- present participle of inch
Noun
inching (plural inchings)
- Very gradual movement.
- Francis Lynde, Empire Builders
- From behind the trucks of the box-car a slender pole, headed with what appeared to be an empty oyster tin, and trailing a black line of fuse, was projecting itself along the ground by slow inchings, creeping across the lighted space […]