The time or season when dusk is approaching or occurring; the period of twilight or early evening; a poetic term for dusk as a time rather than just a quality.
A compound of 'dusking' (the process of becoming dusk) and 'tide' (meaning 'time' or 'season,' as in 'Christmastide' or 'eventide'). This follows archaic English patterns for naming times of day.
This lovely archaic compound shows how older English used 'tide' to mean 'time'—'duskingtide' is exactly the moment when evening begins, and it has the poetic quality of words like 'eventide' and 'Yuletide.'
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