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was couching
  • past progressive of couch.

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At its back a horse was standing, On the stock a foal was running, On the curve a sleeping woman, At the catch a hare was couching.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

Queed looked unseeingly out of the window, where the sun was couching in a bed of copper flame stippled over with brightest azure.

From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau