[-ING1.] The action of the vb. STORM.
1461. Bale’s Chron., in Six Town Chron. (1911), 137. The last day of novembr was a marvelous and dredful sturmyng and noys of the comones and of lordes men at Westminster.
1622. J. Taylor (Water P.), Shilling, C 5 b. Such storming, fretting, fuming.
1661. Reg. Privy Council Scot., Ser. III. I. 26. Gunnis taken … at the stormeing of Dundy.
1667. J. Caryl, Eng. Princess, II. v. 20. Slow Treaties will to stormings him oblige, Who leisure wants to take the Fort by Siege.
a. 1774. W. Whitehead, Epist. from Grove, 11. For here, for all my master’s storming, I’m sure we strangely want reforming.
1913. G. Edmundson, Ch. Rome 1st C., vi. 169. The storming and burning of the Capitol by the foreign mercenaries of Vitellius.
