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carlings

UK/ˈkɑːlɪŋz/

carlings is the plural of carling.

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: Carlings

Carlings

  1. (plural) plural of Carling (“a descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian”)
    • Lothar died soon after, in 986; and though his son Louis V. was crowned, he only lived a year, and when he died in 987, the great counts and dukes met in consultation with the chief of the clergy, and agreed that, as the Counts of Paris were the real heads of the State, and nobody cared for the...1882, Charlotte M. Yonge, A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations, volume 2, page 569
    • The Carlings, on the other hand, had few possessions, but unlimited pretensions to empire, and stood forth as the opponents of the growing spirit of feudalism, the subdivision of property and jurisdiction, and as the upholders of unity, centralisation, and Roman traditions.1884, The Academy, volume 25, page 413

Questions about carlings

What is carlings the plural of?
Carlings is the plural of carling.
What part of speech is carlings?
Carlings is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce carlings?
Carlings is pronounced /ˈkɑːlɪŋz/ (UK).

Words near carlings in the dictionary

  1. Carling Sunday
  2. Carling Sundays
  3. Carlingford
  4. Carlinghow
  5. Carlingian
  6. carlings
  7. Carlini
  8. Carlinis
  9. Carlinism
  10. Carlinisms
  11. carlinite

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