[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That crowd, or press closely: see the verb.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Past., IV. 64. In crowding Ranks appear.
1718. Rowe, trans. Lucan, 151. The Crouding Sails from ev’ry Station press.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xx. (1856), 160. The crowding tenants of the air, the Brent goose [etc.].
