[f. THRONG v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb THRONG; pressing; crowding.
13[?]. Cursor M., 22683 (Cott.). Wit thranging sal þai samen threst.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Mark v. 32 b. So was he payned with the throngyng of the people.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxix. (1887), 196. Why there is such thronging of all people that way.
1679. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), I. 7. Mr. Oates preached at Wood-street church … and there was great thronging.
1724. P. Walker, Peden, in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827), I. 153. Such a Thronging to the fearful Pit.
