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carling

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One of the short timbers running fore and aft that connect the transverse beams supporting the deck of a ship.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Sunday before Palm Sunday; the fifth Sunday in Lent, commonly known as Passion Sunday. It was an old custom to eat a certain kind of peas on that day.
  • noun [l. c] plural The peas eaten on Passion Sunday; “grey peas steeped all night in water, and fried next day in butter” (Brockett).
  • noun See carline.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of care, used in Carling Sunday or Care Sunday.
  • noun nautical A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.
  • noun Alternative form of carlin (old woman)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French calingue and from Old Norse kerling, old woman (Old French, from Old Norse).]

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From Old Norse karling, feminine of karl ("carl").

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rhymes (9)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Darling
  2. Starling
  3. darling
  4. gnarling
  5. marling
  6. quarreling
  7. snarling
  8. sparling
  9. starling

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  • chained_bear commented on the word carling

    "... short pieces of timber ranging fore and aft, from one of the deck beams to another, into which their ends are scored: they are used to sustain and fortify the smaller beams of the ship, and are exhibited in the deck. They are pieces of oak timber, about eight feet long and eight inches square, or more, used for the purpose of framing the partners."

    —Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 77

    October 14, 2008

  • hernesheir commented on the word carling

    carlin

    June 25, 2011