sheltering - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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sheltering (plural shelterings)

1. A shelter; a structure beneath which one shelters.
   • 1892, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, volume 2, page 668:
     The result was most satisfactory, as I succeeded, with Mr. Morgan's kind assistance, in securing a considerable number of larvae living beneath shelterings formed of coccid remains, which I felt sure must be the early stage of a Thalpochares.

sheltering

1. present participle and gerund of shelter

• shelteringly

• unsheltering

• lighteners, threelings

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