quartering
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Hopping, squattering, half scrambling, half bounding into the firelight came running a dumpy creature all fluttering with scarlet rags.
From The Maid-At-Arms by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
A gillie, who had no English, was lying at his right hand, and far out at sea a string of squattering geese were slowly drifting shorewards with the wind.
From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John
She was squattering along under the two lower topsails only, and we amused ourselves by betting when they'd split.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
We had by now joined the rest of the party, and were all soon squattering about on our own account in the elephant bath.
From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.
No blustering liner, no fussy tug, no squattering steamer, she; but a bluff-bowed, smartly painted, trim-built sailing barge, plying chiefly from the lower reaches of the Thames to ports west of Dover.
From Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers by Various
