Usually means: Calming or taming animals gently.
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  1. gentling: Merriam-Webster
  2. gentling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gentling: Vocabulary.com
  4. gentling: Wordnik
  5. gentling: Wiktionary
  6. gentling: Dictionary.com
  7. gentling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gentling: Legal dictionary

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  1. gentling: Encyclopedia

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  1. gentling: Medical dictionary

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  1. gentling: Idioms

(Note: See gentle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Gentle)

adjective:  Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
adjective:  Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
adjective:  Docile and easily managed.
adjective:  Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
adjective:  Polite and respectful rather than rude.
adjective:  (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
verb:  (intransitive) To become gentle.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To ennoble.
verb:  (transitive, animal husbandry) To break; to tame; to domesticate.
verb:  (transitive) To soothe; to calm; to make gentle.
noun:  (archaic) A person of high birth.
noun:  (fishing) A maggot used as bait by anglers.
noun:  A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.
noun:  A surname.
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