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carlin

/ˈkɑː(ɹ)lɪn/

carlin is the alternative form of carline.

carlin is the alternative form of carling.

Meaning of carline

Noun (1)

carline (plural carlines)

  1. (Scotland) A woman; also, a hag or witch.
    • He taks a ſvvirlie, auld moſs-oak, / For ſome black, grouſome Carlin; […]1785 (date written), Robert Burns, “Halloween”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793...

Noun (2)

carline (plural carlines)

  1. A line of automobiles awaiting access to the same building or similar location.

Noun (3)

carline (plural carlines)

  1. Carline thistle (Carlina spp.).

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Meaning of carling

Noun (1)

carling (plural carlings)

  1. 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 (2)

carling (plural carlings)

  1. A cultivar of field pea or maple pea, dried, soaked, boiled, then fried.
    Synonyms:
    carling pea

See all 5 meanings of carling

Proper noun capitalized: Carlin

Carlin (countable and uncountable, plural Carlins)

  1. (countable) A surname.
    • Carlin also got arrested at one of comedian Lenny Bruce’s obscenity busts. By the late 1960s, Carlin changed his image from button-downed to T-shirt and jeans.2020 July 24, Dennis Simanaitis, “CELEBRATING GEORGE CARLIN”, in Simanaitis Says, archived from the original on 16 May 2022
  2. A small city in Elko County, Nevada, United States, named after William Carlin.

Synonyms of carlin

Forms of carlin

Noun
pluralcarlins
Proper noun
pluralCarlins

Words formed from carlin

Phrases with carlin

Words that rhyme with carlin

Questions about carlin

What does carlin mean?
Carlin means a surname.
What is carlin the alternative form of?
Carlin is the alternative form of carline.
What part of speech is carlin?
Carlin is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce carlin?
Carlin is pronounced /ˈkɑː(ɹ)lɪn/.

Words near carlin in the dictionary

  1. carlike
  2. Carlile
  3. Carliles
  4. Carlill
  5. Carlills
  6. carlin
  7. Carlin How
  8. Carlin pea
  9. Carlin peas
  10. Carlinda
  11. carline

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carlin (page history and authors); Carlin (page history and authors); carline (page history and authors); carling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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