Crowding vbl. sb.

[f. CROWD v.¹ + -ING¹.] The action of the verb CROWD q.v., in various senses.

c. 1384.  Chaucer, H. Fame, III. 269. Ful moche prees of folke ther nas Ne crowdyng.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 105. Crowdynge, caryynge wythe a barowe, cenivectura.

1665.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 139. We saw a dozen Persians ride up a breast without crowding.

1814.  Scott, Wav., xx. The company numerous even to crowding.