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crouching

/ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/ noun C2
  1. The action of the verb crouch.

Plural crouchings

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Though the Bull dug into the walls with his horns, he tired before he could rout out the Mouse, and crouching down, went to sleep outside the hole.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 51 · B2
He was crouching for his final spring and blow when a cool, sardonic voice greeted him from the open bedroom door:
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 35 · B2
A man was crouching at the window.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 84 · B2
Those two men might still be crouching in the doorway, but I could no longer see them.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 21 · C1

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