▪ I. crowling nonce-wd.
(ˈkrəʊlɪŋ)
[f. crow n. + -ling.]
A little or young crow.
| 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 327 A more vaine Crowling..then that Iack-Daw, which æsop describes. 1887 Blackw. Mag. Nov. 705 He is..ready in a grandmotherly way to think all his crowlings white. |
▪ II. crowling vbl. n.
see crowl v.