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wreckling

wreckling is the alternative form 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.

Forms of wreckling

pluralwrecklings

Questions about wreckling

What is wreckling the alternative form of?
Wreckling is the alternative form of reckling.

Words near wreckling in the dictionary

  1. wrecking yard
  2. wrecking yards
  3. wreckings
  4. wreckish
  5. wreckless
  6. wreckling
  7. wrecklings
  8. wreckmaster
  9. wreckmasters
  10. wreckovation
  11. wreckovations

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