sheltering

sheltering

English

Verb

sheltering

1. present participle of shelter

Noun

sheltering (plural shelterings)

1. A shelter; a structure beneath which one shelters.
   • 1892, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales (volume 2, page 668)

     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.

Anagrams

• lighteners, threelings