[f. CROUCH v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the verb CROUCH, q.v.
1535. Coverdale, Ecclus. xii. 11. Though he make moch croutchinge and knelinge.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 319. In their croochynges, maskyng Masses, Anthemes.
1814. Byron, Corsair, II. xiv. The coward crouching of despair.
