Flitting

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

Equivalents

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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