Meanings
nounsheltering (plural shelterings)
plural shelterings
- A shelter; a structure beneath which one shelters.
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.
1892, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, volume 2, page 668
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of shelter
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