英和和英

名詞

mustering (plural musterings)

1. A bringing together, as of livestock for counting.
   • 2008 June 1, Paul Vitello, “For Parade Celebrating Israel, an Effort to Include Those Closest to It”, in New York Times‎:

     They are demonstrations in the literal sense: musterings of potential voters, beauty pageants of potential contributors, inventories of the ethnic loyalties that count most in a metropolitan area of a thousand intermingled peoples.

2. (collective) A group of storks.
   • 2017, Karen Duffy, Backbone‎, Arcade Publishing, page 55:

     I don't think an entire mustering of storks would have been able to peck away at her hostility.

   • 2014, Rodney J. Croft, Churchil's Final Farewell‎:

     all the cranes standing like a mustering of storks dipped their jibs in salute

   • (Can we date this quote?), “Bird-watching in Japan”, in Japan.travel‎, archived from the original on 1 August 2026:

     The last known stork died here in 1971 and, in 1985, a new mustering of storks was introduced from Russia.