Definition of "wavings" [wavings]

• Plural form of waving. (noun)

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• "You don't get any of the kind of wavings and excitement and double-barrelled adjectives that you can listen to any time you turn on the short wave to Germany, but just a quiet, strong, competent and witty, light-hearted and grave-minded statement of certain fundamental facts on which we can comfortably base ourselves."
• "Between the booby-hatch and the wheel, sitting up and rocking back and forth with wringings of hands and wavings of arms, tears of agony bursting from his eyes, was Buckwheat."
• "Went to more sign-wavings, handed out literature, talked with like minded people, & got psyched up …"