crouched
adj/kɹaʊt͡ʃt/ · CA /kɹʌʊt͡ʃt/
1
Marked with, bearing, or wearing the sign of the cross.
2
In a crouching position.
- Like a crouched tiger, he waited for the moment to spring, and hunt his victim down.1854, John Mills (Novelist.), The Old English Gentleman; Or, The Fields and the Woods, page 198: