"ottering" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "ottering (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Ogden Adele, The California Sea Otter Trade 1784-1848, page 110:",
          "text": "Wolfskill's last ottering was done a year later under a license granted by Governor José Figueroa for six months beginning in October. Another beaver trapper and leader of an overland party, Ewing Young, also tried his hand at ottering.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The hunting of otters."
      ],
      "id": "en-ottering-en-noun-7GS-bvad",
      "links": [
        [
          "hunt",
          "hunt"
        ],
        [
          "otter",
          "otter"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ottering"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "ottering (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Ogden Adele, The California Sea Otter Trade 1784-1848, page 110:",
          "text": "Wolfskill's last ottering was done a year later under a license granted by Governor José Figueroa for six months beginning in October. Another beaver trapper and leader of an overland party, Ewing Young, also tried his hand at ottering.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The hunting of otters."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hunt",
          "hunt"
        ],
        [
          "otter",
          "otter"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ottering"
}