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recklings

recklings is the plural of reckling.

Meaning of reckling

Noun

reckling (plural recklings)

  1. (archaic) A weak child or animal.
    • O ay, what say ye to Sir Valence, him / Whose kinsman left him watcher o'er his wife / And two fair babes, and went to distant lands; / Was one year gone, and on returning found / Not two but three: there lay the reckling, one / But one hour old! What said the happy sire?1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 130
  2. (archaic) A reckless person.

Questions about recklings

What is recklings the plural of?
Recklings is the plural of reckling.

Words near recklings in the dictionary

  1. recklessest
  2. recklessly
  3. recklessness
  4. recklessnesses
  5. reckling
  6. recklings
  7. Reckner
  8. Reckners
  9. reckon
  10. reckon for
  11. reckon on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recklings (page history and authors); reckling (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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