shuttering

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of closing something with shutters.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The winding down of a business, a publication, etc.

   “In the long run, Marvel's B&W newsstand efforts outlasted the closing and shutterings of both Skywald and Warren's doors but the longest lived of their horror titles only lasted two years, from 1973–1975.”

3. (countable, uncountable)Formwork.

   “s (plural)”

   “[I]n practice, small deformations will occur in the shell on striking the shuttering, or... alternatively, some small deformations are due to slightly imperfect placing of the original formwork.”

verb

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