Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of lurk
nounlurking (plural lurkings)
plural lurkings
- The act of one who lurks.
In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings, and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.
2011, Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals, page 99
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