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scatterlings

scatterlings is the plural of scatterling.

Meaning of scatterling

Noun

scatterling (plural scatterlings)

  1. (obsolete) One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond.
    • Long time in peace his realm establishd, / Yet oft annoyd with sundry bordragings / Of neighbour Scots, and forrein scatterlings.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 63

Questions about scatterlings

What is scatterlings the plural of?
Scatterlings is the plural of scatterling.

Words near scatterlings in the dictionary

  1. scattering function
  2. scattering functions
  3. scatteringly
  4. scatterings
  5. scatterling
  6. scatterlings
  7. scattermouch
  8. scattermouches
  9. scatterogram
  10. scatterograms
  11. scatterometer

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