Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vetch or pea, Lathyrus sativus, extensively cultivated in the south of Europe for its seed, which is eaten like the chick-pea, and is said to be of superior quality. Also called chickling, chickling-vetch, chichling-vetch.
- noun A small chick or chicken.
- noun [Cf.
chicaric .] A name of the bird Strepsilas interpres, or turnstone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small chick or chicken.
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- noun A small
chick orchicken ; a babychick .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“If thou wouldst preserve this chickling secrecy of thine, might one suggest that thou close yon portal?”
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The story requireth that we relate that which happened unto six pilgrims, who came from Sebastian near to Nantes; and who, for shelter that night, being afraid of the enemy, had hid themselves in the garden upon the chickling peas, among the cabbages and lettuces.
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The powermower went nicely, I might almost say smoothly, over the stuff cut before, muttering and chickling happily to itself as it dragged the panting gardener, inescapably harnessed, in its wake.
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Pewt come down and sed she had been to his house and to Beanys and all over the naborhood. gosh i bet we caugt her cat and sent it away. ennyway what rite had her old cat in my hencoop. tonite me and Pewt set a new trap and bated it with a fresh sucker. i have got to get the old yeller cat. one more chickling disapeared to day.
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Tifaga Jack, Donald and Edinburgh — seven horses — O, and the stallion — eight horses; five cattle; total, if my arithmetic be correct, thirteen head of beasts; I don’t know how the pigs stand, or the ducks, or the chickens; but we get a good many eggs, and now and again a duckling or a chickling for the table; the pigs are more solemn, and appear only on birthdays and sich.
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