[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Assembling in flocks or crowds.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxvii. (1887), 145. To cut of this flocking multitude, which will needes to schoole.
1878. J. T. Trowbridge, Guy Vernon, II. ix., in A Masque of Poets, 217.
| Lounged half asleep smoked, walked, and talked, and read, | |
| Or watched the flocking gulls that came and fled. |
Hence Flockingly adv. in a flock.
14[?]. MS. Egerton, 829 f. 94 (Halliw.). Gregatim, flokyng-lyche .
