[-ING2.] That troops.

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1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 83. Heere … fields of Salent with trouping clustered armye Lyctius Idomeneus dooth keepe.

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1728–46.  Thomson, Spring, 135. The little trooping birds.

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1823.  Chalmers, Serm., I. i. 24. His people … come in trooping multitudes around him.

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1843.  J. Martineau, Chr. Life (1867), 464. Whose trooping images the dawning light does not disperse.

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