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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMPASSING

ppr. 1. Embracing; going round; inclosing; obtaining; accomplishing; imagining; intending.
2. In ship-building, incurvated; arched.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COMPASSING

COMPASSING Com "pass *ing, a. (Shipbuilding )

 

Defn: Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.