Anagrams of DEPUTING__

• act as a substitute

• appoint as a substitute

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune

• a witty saying

• witty remark

• make jokes or quips

• act as a substitute

• appoint as a substitute

• a pinkish lilac crystal form of the mineral spodumene that is used as a gemstone

• a house with two units sharing a common wall

• an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase

• (used technically of a device or process) having two parts

• allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously

• change into a duplex

• To be frivolous and waste time

• To experiment by trial and error

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

• To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

• To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

• To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

• To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.