still-closing

I grabbed the still-closing door and tromped into the warm shop.

She’s So Dead to Us Kieran Scott 2010

I grabbed the still-closing door and tromped into the warm shop.

She’s So Dead to Us Kieran Scott 2010

Kill the still-closing [433-15] waters, as diminish

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Minister of fate against the great criminal, it joins itself with the "incensed seas and shores" -- the sword that layeth at it cannot hold, and may "with bemocked-at stabs as soon kill the still-closing waters, as diminish one dowle that is in its plume."

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

What is _still-closing_ but _still-piecing_, the silent reunion after severance?

Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

In the second, the mention of, to "wound the loud wind, or kill the still-closing water," is to set forth the absurdness of the attempt; but in the first passage there is a direct injunction to a possible act:

Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852