Meaning of Flitting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. gerund of flit: the motion of something that flits.
   form-of, gerund
2. The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.
   Northern-England, Scotland

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Examples

“the flittings of birds”

“After the flitting of the bats, / When thickest dark did trance the sky, / She drew the casement-curtain by, / And glanced athwart the glooming flats.”

“The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.”

“Uncle Billy came home for the weekend to help with the flitting.”

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