eggling

Noun (1)

eggling (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The sale of eggs; the trade of an eggler.
   • No eggler will allow eggs to be contaminated, because he wants to sell at the best price he can get […] If the House says it is, then in my opinion the majority of those people must get out of eggling […]1938, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Parliamentary debates; official report, volume 73, page 734
   • The death of Dobbin of old age had put an end to his master's eggling, for he had no capital with which to buy another horse.1945, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

Noun (2)

IPA/ɛɡ.lɪŋ/

eggling (plural egglings)

1. A small, miniature, undersized, or underdeveloped egg.
   • "Ode X" in 1834, Charles L. S. Jones, American Lyrics
     One Lovling scarcely's fledg'd. One, yet,
     An eggling still remains;
     A third, from forth the broken shell,
     In chirping notes, complains.
   • But now the little Other eggling was making loud peeping sounds. It was hungry.2007, Robert J. Sawyer, Foreigner