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Webster 1913 Edition


Whitling

Whit′ling

,
Noun.
[
White
+
-ling
.]
(Zool.)
A young full trout during its second season.
[Prov. Eng.]

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whitling

whitling

English

Noun

whitling (plural whitlings)

  1. (Britain, dialect) A young full trout during its second season.
    • 1803, Henry Mackenzie, Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland, page 377:
      The whitling and the finner, or finnoc, have been supposed by many to be young salmon.