noosing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of noose

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The tying of a noose.

   “It is very unpleasant being hanged on a dark winter morning; very cold, very friendless, very inhuman. The long trial, the solitude and the confinement, the thoughts of the long sleepless night before, the hangman and the pinioning and the noosing of the rope, are apt to prey on the imagination.”