nooking

plural nookings

1. obsoleteA corner, niche, or nook.

   Walden Common is, we think, well situated, because it is not a nooking in some particular road, but it is the way,—the royal highway,—to various places.

   1845, John Player, Sketches of Saffron Walden, and its vicinity, page 48

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   If the villagers were too poor to purchase these books, new modes were adopted to satisfy their mental cravings, and the Book Clubs and Artisans' Libraries reared their heads in those obscure nookings, where, hitherto, the smithy, the village green, the "road ends," and the ale bench, had been the rural seats of learning; and that mighty engine, the press, aided by the steam of science, superseded the ancient traditions of those village news-rooms.

   1847, Christopher Thomson, The Autobiography of an Artisan, page 20

   My great want was books; I was too poor to purchase expensive ones, and the 'cheap literature' was not then, as now, to be found in every out-o'-the-way nooking.

   1864, Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of nook