hollowing

English

Verb

hollowing

1. present participle of hollow

Noun

hollowing (plural hollowings)

1. The act of one who hollows; a cry or shout.
   • Fuller

     Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear.

   • 1819, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Travels in Nubia

     At length, about three o'clock in the morning, we heard the distant hollowings of our watermen, and soon after refreshed ourselves with copious draughts of the delicious water of the Nile.