sheltering

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English

Verb

sheltering

  1. present participle and gerund of shelter

Noun

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.

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