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Verb

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skulking

  1. present participle and gerund of skulk

Noun

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skulking (plural skulkings)

  1. The action of one who skulks.
    • 1852, William Gilmore Simms, The Sword and the Distaff, page 205:
      You will know them by their sly looks; their skulkings, peepings, watchings, and the snares they lay;—by the great papers, with great seals, that they carry; []