crouching

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of crouch

noun

1. The action of the verb crouch.
   […] so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a warmer, brighter region of mutual liking and approval, until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear. 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down

adj

1. That crouches or crouch.
   Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon