égrener
Meanings
Verb
1. to shell, pod (maize, peas, wheat etc.)
2. to gin (cotton)
3. to ripple (flax)
4. to drop off the stalk or bunch (reflexive)
5. to dish out (figurative, figuratively)
6. to rattle off, go through (a list), tick away (time) (figurative, figuratively)
Examples2
Il chut de tout son long, égrenant à nouveau un chapelet d'horribles jurons.
He fell full length, reeling off another string of appalling curses.
Tom peut égrener les noms des capitales de tous les pays européens.
Tom can reel off the names of the capitals of all European countries.